improbam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →improbus, improba, improbum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wicked/flagrant; morally unsound; greedy/rude; immoderate; disloyal; shameless;
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...ferebat caelo sublimis Idaeum, illinc candidus Hylas repellebat improbam Naida. Damnabat Apollo noxias manus lyramque resolutam modo nato..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sunt illa, intueri lacunaria, perfricare faciem et quasi improbam facere, tendere confidentia vultum aut quo sit magis torvus..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...noli imputare vanum beneficium mihi'.Atque ita locutus improbam leto dedit.Hoc in se dictum debent illi agnoscere,quorum..."