See nihil in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "nihil album"
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"text": "Nīl·ne in mentem·st?",
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"english": "It's nothing/It doesn't matter.",
"text": "Nihil est.",
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"text": "Nihil sub sōle novum.",
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"english": "I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.",
"ref": "163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1.77",
"text": "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."
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"english": "You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.",
"ref": "63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.8",
"text": "Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam."
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"text": "Nīl·ne in mentem·st?",
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"text": "Nihil est.",
"type": "example"
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"text": "Nihil sub sōle novum.",
"type": "example"
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"english": "I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.",
"ref": "163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1.77",
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},
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"english": "You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.",
"ref": "63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.8",
"text": "Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam."
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