amplissime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amplus, ampla -um, amplior -or -us, amplissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
great, large, spacious, wide, ample; distinguished, important, honorable;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →ample, amplius, amplissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
in liberal manner/complimentary terms/dignified style, handsomely, impressively;
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...fuit, oratione utens "permitte," inquit "philosophorum amplissime, quoniam respondere nos tibi, quos vocas idiotas, non quimus, recitari..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Tiberio cum plurimis lacrimis pro contione laudato funeratoque amplissime, confestim Pandateriam et Pontias ad transferendos matris fratrisque cineres..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...appellatus esset a senatu, quod amicus, quod munera amplissime missa; quam rem et paucis contigisse et pro magnis..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...postea duplici stipendio, frumento, veste, cibariis militaribusque donis amplissime donavit Pompeius noctu magnis additis munitionibus reliquis diebus turres..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Dianam, Herculem, Mercurium atque Neptunum tribus quam amplissime tum apparari poterat stratis lectis placauere. Privatim quoque id sacrum..."