laceratio

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μηδενί δίκην δικάσῃς πρίν ἀμφοῖν μῦθον ἀκούσῃς → do not give your judgement on anything until you have heard a speech on both sides

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

lăcĕrātĭo: ōnis, f. id.,
I a tearing, rending, mangling, lacerating, laceration (rare but class.): corporis, Cic. Pis. 18, 42: corporum, Liv. 7. 4.—Concr.: omnia loca crinium laceratione complere, the tearings of her hair, Vulg. Esth. 14, 2.—Plur.: muliebres lacerationes genarum, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62.