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Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

vĭrĭae: ārum, f.,
I a kind of ornament for the arm, armlets, bracelets (syn. armilla), Plin. 33, 3, 12, § 40; Tert. Pall. 4 med.; Ambros. Abrah. 1, 9, 88.