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Ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ δυστυχοῦντι μὴ πλάσῃς κακόν → Miseri miseriae ne quid affingas mali → Vermehre nicht dem Unglücksraben noch sein Leid

Menander, Monostichoi, 145

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

căpistro: (āvi), ātum, 1, v. a. id..
I To halter, tie with a halter: jumenta, Col. 6, 19, 2; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177; Ov. H. 2, 80; Sid, Carm. 22, 23.—*
II Transf., of the vine, to bind fast, to fasten, Col. 11, 2, 95.