avarities
δρυὸς πεσούσης πᾶς ἀνὴρ ξυλεύεται → when the oak falls, everyone cuts wood | when an oak has fallen, every man gathers wood | on the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood | when an oak has fallen, every man becomes a woodcutter | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his strength | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his power | when the tree is fallen, every man goes to it with his hatchet
Latin > English
avarities avaritiei N F :: greed, avarice; rapacity; miserliness, stinginess, meanness
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ăvārĭtĭes: ēi, f., for avaritia,
I avarice: avarities et honorum caeca cupido, Lucr. 3, 59; and besides perh. only Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 185; v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 372.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ăvārĭtĭēs,¹⁶ ēī, f., c. le précéd. : Lucr. 3, 59 ; Liv. 24, 32, 1.
Latin > German (Georges)
avāritiēs, ēī, f., Nbf. v. avaritia, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 1011 u. 1459. Lucr. 3, 59. Claud. I II. cons. Hon. 185.
Latin > Chinese
avarities, ei. f. :: 慳吝
