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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

trĭorches: ae, m., = τριόρχης> (having three testicles),
I a kind of falcon, the buzzard: Falco buteo, Linn.; Plin. 10, 8, 9, § 21; 10, 74, 95, § 204.