illustrium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Illustris, Illustris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Government
Illustrious, title of highest officers of late empire; (above Spectabiles);
gen. pl. - Entry →illustris, illustre, illustrior -or -us, illustrissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bright, shining, brilliant; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous;
gen. pl. (all)
Examples
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...approbaritis omnes proscriptionem innoxiorum ob divitias, cruciatus virorum illustrium, vastam urbem fuga et caedibus, bona civium miserorum quasi..."Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...summa severitate dulcissimo, vel honestate materiae. Scribit exitus illustrium virorum, in his quorundam mihi carissimorum. Videor ergo fungi..."
