ambitiosior
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ambitiosus, ambitiosa -um, ambitiosior -or -us, ambitiosissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ambitious, eager to please/for advancement/favor; showy; winding, twisting;
nom. sg. (m./f.)voc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...vitia subrepunt. Quid me existimas dicere? avarior redeo, ambitiosior, luxuriosior? immo vero crudelior et inhumanior, quia inter homines..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...securior, uox clarior, sermo liberior, cultus delicatior, aduocatio ambitiosior, fauor popularis exasperant; saepe infesta patrono reum damnat; etiam..."