nefarius
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nefarius, nefaria, nefarium:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wicked, evil, offending moral law; criminal, abominable; horrible/vile/foul;; impious; nefarious; execrable; heinous; abandoned (Cas);
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ultione patrum fuerim tantum expulisse contentus? tuus, mulier, nefarius, tuus inconsultus non permisit adfectus. filium, cui contra severitatem..."XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...apes pauper miser in opere perdidi. paravit homo nefarius ante omnia tantum veneni, quod posset et divitis hortis..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...populo Medea trucidet, aut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus, aut in auem Procne uertatur, Cadmus in anguem..."