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dilute

From LSJ

Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep

Gnomologium Vaticanum, 446

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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verb transitive

mix: P. and V. κεραννύναι; see mix.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

dīlūtē¹⁶ (dilutus), en délayant : dilutius potare Cic. Font. fr. 13, boire son vin plus trempé, plus coupé.