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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)

tortĭlis: e, adj. torqueo,
I twisted, twined, winding (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. sinuosus): aurum, i. e. a golden chain, Verg. A. 7, 351: bucina, Ov. M. 1, 336: ansa, id. H. 16, 252: piscis, crooked, id. M. 13, 915: nervi, Luc. 6, 198: pampinus, Plin. 9, 51, 74, § 163.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

tortĭlis,¹⁵ e (torqueo), tortillé, qui s’enroule : Ov. M. 1, 336 ; Luc. 6, 198 || tortile aurum Virg. En. 7, 351, collier d’or.