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callidissime

Dictionary entries

  • callidus, callida -um, callidior -or -us, callidissimus -a -um:

    Adjective · 1st declension

    Frequency:
    Frequent
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = crafty, sly, cunning; wise, expert, skillful, clever, experienced, ingenious;

    Entry →
    voc. sg. (m.)
  • callide, callidius, callidissime:

    Adverb

    Frequency:
    Common
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = expertly, skillfully, cleverly; well, thoroughly; cunningly, artfully;

    Entry →

Examples

  • C

    Alcibiades

    Cornelius Nepos

    "...minus in vita quam victu; affabilis, blandus, temporibus callidissime serviens: idem, simulac se remiserat neque causa suberat, quare..."
  • C

    Themistocles

    Cornelius Nepos

    "...Thucydides, verissime iudicabat et de futuris callidissime coniciebat. Quo factum est, ut brevi tempore illustraretur. Primus autem gradus..."
  • M

    Liber VI

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES

    "...Fabrici fuga illa condita: "itaque cum callidissime se putaret dicere et cum illa verba gravissima ex intimo artificio..."
  • M

    XVIII

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES

    "...quid misera simplicissimo dolore proclamet. 'non efficies,' inquit, 'callidissime parricidarum, ut non audeam cadaver amplecti. ego vero incesta..."
  • M

    XI

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES

    "...trucem debeo praebere et miserum. deprehendam, omnium mortalium callidissime, hunc, quem simulas, quem nunc imitaris adfectum. Tunc sciemus..."

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