maxime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maxime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
especially, chiefly; certainly; most, very much; (forms SUPER w/ADJ/ADV);
- Entry →magnus, magna -um, major -or -us, maximus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
large/great/big/vast/huge; much; powerful; tall/long/broad; extensive/spacious;; great (achievement); mighty; distinguished; skilled; bold/confident; proud;; full/complete/utter/pure; intense; loud; at high price; notable/famous; old;
voc. sg. (m.)
Examples
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...licito tandem sermone fruuntur. rex prior haec: 'maxime Teucrorum ductor, quo sospite numquam res equidem Troiae victas..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...eadem horrida belli fata vocant: salve aeternum mihi, maxime Palla, aeternumque vale.' nec plura effatus ad altos tendebat..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...quodque adluit infra? anne lacus tantos? te, Lari maxime, teque, fluctibus et fremitu adsurgens Benace marino? an memorem..."In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...invidiae [mihi] in posteritatem redundaret. Quodsi ea mihi maxime inpenderet tamen hoc animo fui semper, ut invidiam virtute..."Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...studia viderer, retinere non posse. Qui autem, si maxime hoc placeat, moderatius tamen id volunt fieri, difficilem quandam..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...edidicit Epicuri kurÛaw dņjaw, id est quasi maxime ratas, quia gravissimae sint ad beate vivendum breviter enuntiatae sententiae..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...excludunt, ceteris omnibus philosophis haec est tuenda sententia, maxime tamen his [Stoicis], qui nihil aliud in bonorum numero..."Res Gestae II
Caesar Augustus from Res Gestae Divi Augusti
"...biam, quae appel[latur Eudaemon, [maxim]aeque hos[t]ium gentis utr[iu]sque cop[iae] caesae sunt..."
