Marionette

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Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)

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German > Latin

Marionette, neurospastum. – rein lat. umschr.: simulacrum ligneum, quod nervis movetur et agitatur. – du bist eine bloße M., duceris ut nervis alienis mobile lignum (Hor. sat. 2, 7, 82).