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| Concept: | Bane. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to Ends; Degree of Subservience |
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bibere venenum in auro.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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].
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| 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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