superbi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →superbus, superba, superbum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
arrogant, overbearing, haughty, proud;
gen. sg. (m.)gen. sg. (n.)nom. pl. (m.)voc. pl. (m.) - Entry →superbio, superbire, superbivi, superbitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
show/have (too much) pride/disdain (to); be proud/gorgeous/superb/magnificent;; show pride or disdain on account (of); be proud/haughty; be splendid;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...doles, quererisque perisse uindictam belli raptumque e iure superbi uictoris generum. quisquis te flere coegit impetus, a uera..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...belli, reseratis agmina portis captiuum traxere ducem, ciuisque superbi constitit ante pedes. uoltu tamen alta minaci nobilitas recta..." - A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...liberis meis minime dici velim. Sint sane superbi. Quid id ad nos attinet? Idne irascimini, si quis superbior..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...percurrunt murmura caelum? non populi gentesque tremunt, regesque superbi corripiunt divum percussi membra timore, ne quod ob admissum..." - T
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...teneas, natura videtur libera continuo, dominis privata superbis, ipsa sua per se sponte omnia dis agere expers..." - D
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...stante recumbas. [maxima quaeque domus seruis est plena superbis.] ecce alius quanto porrexit murmure panem uix fractum, solidae..." - D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...mergetur et ipsis uerticibus timidum caput abluet, inde superbi totum regis agrum nuda ac tremibunda cruentis erepet genibus..." - T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...erum vehere servom, inscende. LIB. Sic isti solent superbi subdomari. asta igitur, ut consuetus es puer olim. scin..."