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caldum_meiere_et_frigidum_potare

caldum meiere et frigidum potare

Latin

Proverb

caldum meiere et frīgidum pōtāre

  1. one gives more than one receives; one gives back generously what one has received.
    • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 67
      nunc hoc est caldum meiere et frigidum potare
      now so far it is to drink it cold and piss it hot