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Μέγιστον ὀργῆς ἐστι φάρμακον λόγος → Irae remedium maximum est oratio → Das beste Mittel gegen Zorn: ein gutes Wort

Menander, Monostichoi, 346

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

dī-lăpĭdo: āre, v. a., lit., to scatter like stones; hence,
I to throw away, squander, to consume (very rare): nostras triginta minas, Ter. Ph. 5, 7, 4; cf. facultates, Firm. Math. 6, 10: grandine hominumque boumque labores, to destroy, Col. 10, 330.