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breviter

breviter is a Latin form of brevis, meaning “short, brief; small, narrow; (brevi) shortly, in a short time”. It is the adverb.

Found 246 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.54.2: … dos non constituit, ne aut inferre iniuriam videretur aut dare timoris aliquam suspicionem. Discedentibus his breviter sua in Aeduos merita exposuit,

Suetonius, Tiberius 59.1.1: Asper et immitis, breuiter uis omnia dicam?

Augustine, Epistulae 1·133: … eculo bona tanta largitur, qui facit oriri solem suum super bonos et malos et pluit super iustos et iniustos. Breviter enim aliquid dictum est, ut plura cogitentur; quam multa enim habeant impii in hac vita munera et dona gratui …

All forms of brevis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.