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From LSJ

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

German > Latin

[2] ballen, die Hand (zur Faust), manum in pugnum comprimere u. bl. manum comprimere (Ggstz. explicare manum). – comprimere digitos pugnumque facere (Ggstz. digitos diducere et manum dilatare). – mit geballter Faust, pugno; manu compressā: mit geballter Faust jmd. in das Gesicht schlagen, pugnum factum alci in os impingere (Komik.). – sich ballen, conglobari (im allg., auch v. Schnee); convolvi in formam pilae (v. einer Schlange); conglobari in semet (v. einer Schlange).