Significatio vocis capitalior | Babel Free

Definitiones

comparative degree of capitālis

comparative, declension-3, form-of

Exempla

““Nūllam capitāliōrem pestem quam voluptātem corporis hominibus,” dīcēbat, “ā nātūrā datam, cuius voluptātis avidae libīdinēs temere et ecfrēnātē ad potiendum incitārentur.””

“No more dangerous plague than the pleasure of the body,” he used to say, “was ever given by nature, a pleasure whose greedy lusts were incited recklessly and without restraint to be attained.” (Cicero is writing in the voice of Cato the Elder, who in turn is quoting the Pythagorean philosopher Archytas of Tarentum.)

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