Meaning of profecto | Babel Free

Definitions

actually, indeed, really, truly, surely, assuredly, of course

not-comparable

Examples

“'Absque te' inquit 'uno, forsitan lingua profecto Graeca longe anteisset, sed tu, mi Fronto, quod in uersu Homerico est, id facis: καί νύ κεν ἢ παρέλασσας ἢ ἀμφήριστον ἔθηκας.”

He said, "without you alone, maybe the Greek language would have indeed won, but my dear Fronto, you do what appears in that verse by Homer: He would've made of it either a (victorious) parade or a source of doubt (for the supposed enemy victory) (Iliad 23.527).

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