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Φεῦγ' ἡδονὴν φέρουσαν ὕστερον βλάβην → Procul voluptas sit ea, quam excipit dolor → Lass nicht auf Lust dich ein, die später Schaden bringt

Menander, Monostichoi, 532

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ā̆tlantĭon: ii, n. Atlas,
I the lowest vertebra of the neck (so called because on it rests the whole burden of the head and the remaining vertebrae of the neck): hunc spinae articulum sive nodum Atlantion vocant, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 99.