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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

stirpĭtus: adv. id.; cf. radicitus from radix,
I by the stalk, by the roots, root and branch, stock and stump (very rare). *
I Lit.: arborem transferre, Dig. 47, 7, 3, § 4. —*
   B Transf.: barbam forcipibus evellere, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—*
II Trop. (for the usu. radicitus), utterly: hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus extrahere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

stirpĭtŭs (stirps), adv., avec les racines : Dig. 47, 7, 3 || [fig.] radicalement : Cic. Tusc. 4, 83.