spinosi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spinosus, spinosa, spinosum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
thorny, prickly; crabbed, difficult;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.)
Examples
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ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...Mario, altera a Sulla: totiens huius aridi et spinosi saxi mutatus est populus! 10. Vix denique inuenies ullam..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...felicisque bonis non lenius uritur Herses, quam cum spinosis ignis supponitur herbis, quae neque dant flammas lentoque vapore..."