infaustus

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Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

in-faustus: a, um, adj.,
I unfortunate, unpropitious (poet. and post-Aug.): infaustas exurite puppes, Verg. A. 5, 635: nomen, id. ib. 7, 717: auspicium, id. ib. 11, 347: gradus, Ov. M. 3, 36: dies, Tac. H. 2, 91: castra, id. A. 1, 30.—Neutr. subst.: in-faustum, i, n., a misfortune: infausto Atheniensium, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 169.—Adv.: infaustē, unfortunately (late Lat.), Cassiod. An. 12.