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diminutio

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θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dīmĭnūtĭo: ōnis, f., another reading for deminutio, Hyg. F. 30 in Maj. Auct. Class. v. 3, p. 13, and Vulg. Rom. 11, 12 al.