Lexicon:Fortunatos nimium...

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Citation: fortunatos nimium...
Language: Latin
References: The Ionian Mission, page 20
Meaning: lit.: 'happy to an excessive degree...'.

Notes:


Full quote is O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas, 'O how very happy farmers could be, if only they would count their blessings (lit.: know their possessions)! Virgil, Georgics II.

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