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Κέρδος πονηρὸν μηδέποτε βούλου λαβεῖν → Ex non honesto lucra sectari cave → Hab nie den Wunsch, unredlichen Gewinn zu ziehn

Menander, Monostichoi, 288

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

labdăcismus: i, m., = λαβδακισμός>,
I labdacism, a fault in speaking.
I The too frequent use of the letter l (as, sol et luna luce lucebant alba, levi, lactea), Mart. Cap. 5, § 514.—
II An erroneous pronunciation of the letter l, like the Spanish ll, Diom. 448 P.; Isid. Orig. 1, 31, 8.