inprobos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inprobus, inproba, inprobum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wicked/flagrant; morally unsound; greedy/rude; immoderate; disloyal; shameless;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
- P
Hecyra
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...vides; nam vitiumst oblatum virgini olim a nescioquo inprobo. nunc huc confugit te atque alios partum ut celaret..." - A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...temporum fuerat, L. Aelius Stilo ut novo et inprobo verbo uti vitaverat. Propterea, quid M. quoque Varro..." - A
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...esse convicio decertandum neque maledictis adversum inpudentes et inprobos velitandum, quia tantisper similis et compar eorum fias..." Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ungularum pulsibus calens Hister fractus cornu iam ter inprobo Rhenus teneat domantem regna perfidae gentis te, summe mundi..."- L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inquit 'quod protinus inbecillam aciem committas inprobo lumini; a tenebris primum ad umbrosa procede, deinde plus aude..." - M
In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...putat oportere atque hoc genus poenae saepe in inprobos civis in hac re publica esse usurpatum recordatur. Alter..."