Significatio vocis cupiditas | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. desire (deemed good, neutral or bad)
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2. lust, passion
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3. cupidity, avarice, greed, covetousness
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Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Is, M. Messālā et M. Pupio Pīsōne cōnsulibus, rēgnī cupiditāte inductus coniūrātiōnem nōbilitātis fēcit, et cīvitātī persuāsit ut dē fīnibus suīs cum omnibus cōpiīs exīrent: perfacile esse, cum virtūte omnibus praestārent, tōtīus Galliae imperiō potīrī.”

He, with Marcus Messala and Marcus Piso being consuls, incited by a lust for power, formed a conspiracy amongst the nobility, and persuaded the people to come forth from their lands with all of their possessions, [saying] that it would be very easy, as they were all distinguished in valor, to acquire the supremacy over all of Gaul.

“coercere omnes cupiditates”

to control all of one's lusts

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