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Concept: Bane.
Category: 2. Subservience to Ends; Degree of Subservience
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bibere venenum in auro.
Antonyms: remedy
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Concept: [Motion downwards] Descent.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
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the bottom fell out.
Antonyms: ascent
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Concept: [Nonproduction] Destruction.
Category: 3. POWER IN OPERATION
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delenda est Carthago [Cato. "Carthage must be destroyed" (Latin)]; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit ["While Rome deliberates Saguntum perishes" (Latin)]; ecrasez
Antonyms: production
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Concept: [Failure of expectation] Disappointment.
Category: 2. To the Future
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the mountain brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes; nascitur ridiculus mus [Horace]; diis aliter visum, the bubble burst; one's countenance falling.
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Concept: Failure.
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the bubble has burst, "the game is up" [Cymbeline]; all is lost; the devil to pay; parturiunt montes (disappointment); dies
Antonyms: success
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Concept: [Source of danger.] Pitfall.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; contingent subservience
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latet anquis in herba [Vergil]; proximus ardet Ucalegon [Vergil].
Antonyms: refuge
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Concept: [Suppression of sign] Obliteration.
Category: 1. Natural Means
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delenda est Carthago [Cato].
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