See amicus on Wiktionary
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"english": "to make a friend; to befriend",
"text": "amīcum parāre",
"translation": "to make a friend; to befriend",
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{
"english": "[Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.",
"ref": "c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.1.1–4",
"roman": "tardiores quam corbitae sunt in tranquillo mari.",
"text": "[Agorastocles] Ita me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius,\npraesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia.\nSicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,",
"translation": "[Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.",
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"word": "necessārius"
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"word": "comes"
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{
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{
"word": "concordia"
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}
],
"word": "amicus"
}
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