incudo

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τὸ βέλτερον κακοῦ καὶ τὸ δίμοιρον αἰνῶ, καὶ δίκᾳ δίκας ἕπεσθαι, ξὺν εὐχαῖς ἐμαῖς, λυτηρίοις μηχαναῖς θεοῦ πάρα → I approve the better kind of evil, the two-thirds kind, and that, in accordance with my prayers, through contrivances bringing salvation at the god’s hand

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

in-cūdo: di, sum, ĕre, v. a.,
I to forge with the hammer, to fabricate (poet., used only in part. pass.): incusa auro dona, Pers. 2, 52: lapis, an indented or sharpened stone for a handmill, Verg. G. 1, 275; Col. 7, 1, 3.