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duri

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

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.102: … m audisset, idcirco inquit genueram, ut esset, qui pro patria mortem non dubitaret occumbere. Esto: fortes et duri Spartiatae; magnam habet vim rei p. disciplina. quid? Cyrenaeum Theodorum, philosophum non ignobilem, nonne m …

Cicero, De Officiis 2.50: … , rei publicae tribuat hoc muneris, cuius inimicos ulcisci saepius non est reprehendendum; modus tamen adsit. Duri enim hominis vel potius vix hominis videtur periculum capitis inferre multis. Id cum periculosum ipsi est, tu …

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.