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Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος – For men reason is a healer of grief – Für Menschen ist der Trauer Arzt allein das WortMaeroris unica medicina oratio.

Menander, Sententiae, 452

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

allex: = alec, q. v.
allex: ĭcis, m., acc. to Isid. Gloss.,
I the great toe; hence, in derision, of a little man: tune hic amator audes esse, allex viri? thou thumb of a man, thumbling? Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 31.