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συκοφάντης ἐστὶν ἐν πόλει λύκος (τοῖς πέλας λύκος) → Calumniator, quemquem novit, huic lupus'st → Der Denunziant lebt in der Stadt gleichsam als Wolf (ist seinen Nachbarn wie ein Wolf)

Menander, Monostichoi, 440

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

merso: āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. id.,
I to dip in, immerse (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: balantumque gregem fluvio mersare salubri, Verg. G. 1, 272: balneo infertur, calida aqua mersatur, Tac. A. 15, 69.—
II Trop., to overwhelm: rerum copia mersat, drowns, destroys, Lucr. 5, 1008: mersor civilibus undis, plunge myself, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 16.—
III Pass.: mersari, to set, of the stars, Mart. Cap. 8, § 844; cf. merto.