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τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

flābra: ōrum, n. id.,
I blasts, esp. of wind; or, concr., breezes, winds (poet.): flabraque ventorum violento turbine vexant, Lucr. 5, 217: Etesia Aquilonum, id. 5, 742; 6, 730: Boreae, Prop. 2, 27, 12 (3, 23, 12 M.): lenia Austri, Val. Fl. 6, 665: freta spirantibus incita flabris, Lucr. 6, 428; cf. id. 6, 719: non hiemes illam, non flabra neque imbres Convellunt, Verg. G. 2, 293.