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οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι → it was fated that you would be taken by the most miserable death, it has been decreed that thou shouldst be cut off by a most piteous death

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

nĭvit: ĕre,
I v. impers. [nix], it snows; poet. transf. of a great quantity of missile weapons: sagittis, plumbo et saxis grandinat, nivit, Pac. ap. Non. 507, 27 (Trag. Rel. v. 4 Rib.).