addictus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →addico, addicere, addixi, addictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
be propitious; adjudge, sentence, doom; confiscate; award, assign; enslave;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →addictus, addicta -um, addictior -or -us, addictissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
devoted/addicted (to); (debt) slave (of); bound (to do something); bent upon;
nom. sg. (m.) - Entry →addictus, addicti:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
person enslaved for debt or theft;
nom. sg.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...sodalis arat; splendet Erythraeis perlucida moecha lapillis, ducitur addictus, te futuente, cliens; octo Syris suffulta datur lectica puellae..."- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...trucem vultu cliensve cenas inpotentium captet, nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem; neve plausor in scenam sedeat..." - G
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...libertis in consortium reciperetur. His, ut dixi, uxoribusque addictus, non principem, sed ministrum egit, compendio cuiusque horum..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...scriptum ab eo repertum est. Prasinae factioni ita addictus et deditus, ut cenaret in stabulo assidue et maneret..." - M
Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...differentia magna subtilitas, ut cum quaeritur an addictus, quem lex servire donec solverit iubet, servus sit. Altera pars..."
