merus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →merus, mera, merum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
unmixed (wine), pure, only; bare, mere, sheer;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...eadem dedero tibi, ubi biberis, savium. P. Viscus merus vostrast blanditia. B. Quid iam? P. Quia enim intellego..." - G
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..." - Q
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..."