Meaning of crepīdō | Babel Free

Definitions

1. basis, foundation, pedestal, base, ground
   declension-3
2. a raised causeway, sidewalk
   declension-3
3. embankment, dam, dike
   declension-3
4. shore, bank
   declension-3
5. a projecting ledge or rim, edge, brim, brink
   declension-3
6. a projecting rock or hill, spur
   declension-3

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Examples

“Si te propositi nondum pudet atque eadem est mens, ut bona summa putes aliena vivere quadra, si potes illa pati quae nec Sarmentus iniquas Caesaris ad mensas nec vilis Gabba tulisset, quamvis iurato metuam tibi credere testi. Ventre nihil novi frugalius; hoc tamen ipsum defecisse puta, quod inani sufficit alvo: nulla crepido vacat? Nusquam pons et tegetis pars dimidia brevior? Tantine iniuria cenae, tam ieiuna fames, cum possit honestius illic et tremere et sordes farris mordere canini?”

If you are not yet ashamed of your idea and still have the same intention, so that you think the highest good is to live by someone else's dining table, if you can bear what neither Sarmentus at Caesar's unequal meals nor the worthless Gabba would have endured, I will be afraid to believe you no matter how a witness swore it. I have known nothing more easily satisfied than the stomach; you should think that that has become deficient which suffices for an empty belly: is there no free sidewalk [to beg on]? No bridge and part of a mat shorter than half? Is that insult of a dinner worth so much, is your hunger so strong, when one could more honorably both tremble and chew dogs' dirty coarse bread?

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