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Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34

Greek Monolingual

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η διάνοιξη με γεωτρύπανο βαθειάς κατακόρυφης οπής στο έδαφος.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < γεω - (< γη) + τρήση. Η λ. γεώτρησις μαρτυρείται από το 1890 στην εφημερίδα Προμηθεύς.