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perdolo

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Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος – For men reason is a healer of grief – Für Menschen ist der Trauer Arzt allein das WortMaeroris unica medicina oratio.

Menander, Sententiae, 452

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

per-dŏlo: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to hew out, to fashion with hewing (post-Aug.): cum in materiem perdolantur, Vitr. 2, 10, 2: arbor perdolata, id. 2, 9, 7: fomes perdolatus, Arn. 6, 209.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

perdŏlō, ātum, āre, tr., travailler à fond avec la dolabre, façonner proprement : Vitr. Arch. 2, 10, 2.

Latin > German (Georges)

per-dolo (āvī), ātum, āre, gut behauen, gehörig zuhauen, zimmern, quae est (arboris pars) superior praecīsa alte circiter pedes XX et perdolata propter nodationis duritiem, Vitr. 2, 9, 7: petrae non perdolatae a ferro, Gromat. 342, 24. – m. Ang. wozu? durch in u. Akk., in materiem perdolari (v. Bäumen), Vitr. 2, 10, 2: fomes perdolatus in fulminis modum, Arnob. 6, 25.

Latin > Chinese

perdolo, as, are. :: 刨平錛平