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Ἰχθύς ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς ὄζειν ἄρχεται → The fish stinks from the head
vastesco: ĕre,I v. inch. n. vastus, to become desert or waste: ne scelere tuo Thebani vastescant agri, Att. ap. Non. 185, 10.