perditissimorum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →perditus, perdita -um, perditior -or -us, perditissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ruined; broken/debilitated; bankrupt, financially ruined; lost, done for;; degenerate, morally depraved, wild, abandoned; reckless; desperate/hopeless;
gen. pl. (m.)gen. pl. (n.)
Examples
In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...coniuratione tantaque hac multitudine domesticorum hostium novem hominum perditissimorum poena re publica conservata reliquorum mentes sanari posse arbitraretur..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...hanc omnibus hostium copiis terra marique superatis a perditissimorum civium nefario scelere defendant..."
