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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
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Transliteration A: triórchēs Transliteration B: triorchēs Transliteration C: triorchis Beta Code: trio/rxhs

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ,

   A with three testicles: metaph., very lecherous, Timae.145.    II a kind of hawk, perh. buzzard, Buteo vulgaris, Ar.Av.1181, cf. Arist.HA 592b3, 609a24, 620a17, Thphr.HP9.8.7; τριόρχας αἰετούς Lyc. 148; παῖδες τ. (with pun on ὀρχέομαι) Ar.V.1534 cod. B (-οις codd. RV) (lyr.); v. τρίορχος.    III = κενταυρίς 1, Plin.HN25.69 (where triorchis, mistranslating Thphr. l. c.).    2 = σεραπιάς, Aët.15.13, Paul. Aeg.4.25.