Significatio vocis tetricus | Babel Free

Definitiones

forbidding, harsh, crabbed, gloomy, sour, stern, severe

adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“Si deus ipse forem, numen sine fraude liceret femina mendaci falleret ore meum; ipse ego iurarem verum iurare puellas”

Translation by Christopher Marlowe Were I a god, I should give women leave, With lying lips my godhead to deceive. Myself would swear the wenches true did swear, And I would be none of the gods severe.

“At quam non tetricus, quam nulla nubilus ira, Quam placido nostras legerat ore preces!”

But how far from stern, how far from clouded by any anger, with how calm a countenance did he read my prayers!

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