austeras
Dictionary entries
- Entry →austerus, austera -um, austerior -or -us, austerissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
austere, plain; bitter, sour; dry (wine); sharp, pungent; dark, somber, morose;
acc. pl. (f.)
Examples
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Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...locis et in omni amplificatione, sed poscitur tum austera si accuses, tum fusa si laudes. Multum..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quidem ipsa festinet nec musta in lacu statim austera sint: sic et annos ferent et uetustate proficient..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...aluo. Centuriae seniorum agitant expertia frugis, celsi praetereunt austera poemata Ramnes. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci..." - G
Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...quem non potius dulcia haec et sonantia quam austera et pressa delectent? Est quidem omnino turpis ista discordia..."