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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

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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subs.

Tent: P. and V. σκηνή, ἡ.

Taking the sacred hangings from the treasure-house, he made a canopy: V. λαβὼν ὑφάσμαθʼ ἱρὰ θησαυρῶν πάρα κατεσκίαζε (Eur., Ion, 1141).

Upon the roof he spreads a canopy of cloth: V. ὀρόφῳ πτέρυγα περιβάλλει πέπλων (Eur., Ion, 1143).