spectabilem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Spectabilis, Spectabilis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Government
Respectable, title of high officers of late empire; (below Illustres);
acc. sg. - Entry →spectabilis, spectabilis, spectabile:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
noteworthy, outstanding; worth consideration/looking at; able to be seen;
acc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Agrippina referretur, ut memoravi, quodque Iuvenalium ludicro parum spectabilem operam praebuerat; eaque offensio altius penetrabat, quia idem Thrasea..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...aciem in his vestigiis, in quibus pulchram et spectabilem victoriam ederetis. Transigite cum expeditionibus, imponite quinquaginta annis magnum..."
