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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

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substantive

P. and V. κύκνος, ὁ (Plato).

swanlike: V. κυκνόμορφος.

swansong: see Aesch., Agamemnon 1444.

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