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Ἐκ τῶν πόνων τοι τἀγάθ' αὔξεται βροτοῖς → Crescunt labore cuncta bona mortalibus → Das Gute wächst den Sterblichen aus ihrem Müh'n

Menander, Monostichoi, 149

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

lāserpīcĭum: (lāsarpīcĭum), ĭi, n.,
I a plant, also called silphium, from which the laser was obtained, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 16; id. Stich. 2, 3, 11; Col. 6, 17, 7; Plin. 19, 3, 15, § 38; also the juice of the silphium, id. 20, 13, 51, § 141.