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alter idem

[ ahl-ter ee-dem; English awl-ter ahy-dem, al- ]

noun

, Latin.
  1. another exactly the same.


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Verus amicus est is qui est tanquam alter idem—A 20 true friend is he who is, as it were, a second self.

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