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dure

dure is a Latin form of durus, meaning “hard; harsh, stern, rough; tough, hardy; cruel”. It is the adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular masculine adjective or vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 12.25: … ere. quis bonus non luget mortem Treboni? quis non dolet interitum talis et civis et viri? at sunt qui dicant dure illi quidem, sed tamen dicunt: minus dolendum quod ab homine impuro nefarioque non caverit. etenim qui multor …

Ovid, Amores 3.4.1: Dure vir, inposito tenerae custode puellae

All forms of durus (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.