merus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →merus, mera, merum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
unmixed (wine), pure, only; bare, mere, sheer;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...eadem dedero tibi, ubi biberis, savium. P. Viscus merus vostrast blanditia. B. Quid iam? P. Quia enim intellego..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...lymphae vini pernicies, et ad severos migrate. hic merus est Thyonianus. XXVIII. ad Verannium et Fabullum Pisonis comites..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...inest, nisi quod pede certo differt sermoni, sermo merus. 'at pater ardens saevit, quod meretrice nepos insanus amica..."