Meaning of nasutus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. big-nosed; that has a large nose
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2
2. satirical, sagacious, witty
   adjective, declension-1, declension-2, figuratively

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Examples

“Nasutus sis usque licet, sis denique nasus, Quantum noluerat ferre rogatus Atlans, Et possis ipsum tu deridere Latinum: Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas,”

You're allowed to be keen-nosed, or in a nutshell to be a nose, to the point Atlas himself, if asked, would be unwilling to carry you. You can even surpass Latinus [the pantomime] himself in wit, but you can't attack my trifles more than I have myself.

“Nos in Anglia nonnihil promovimus. […] Tu quoque, si sapis, huc advolabis. Quid ita te iuvat hominem tam nasutum inter merdas Gallicas consenescere? Sed retinet te tua podagra; ut ea te salvo pereat male.”

We have made some progress in England. […] You, too, if you're wise, will fly your way here. What could please you, a man of such wit, about growing old in French shit? But your toe gout stops you; I hope that it dies a bad death and that you get better.

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