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durior

durior is a Latin form of durus, meaning “hard; harsh, stern, rough; tough, hardy; cruel”. It is the nominative singular feminine comparative adjective or nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.20: … us impudentiae est? Itaque, hoc qui postularet reperiebatur nemo. Atque ipsis, ad quorum commodum pertinebat, durior inventus est Caelius. Et ab hoc profectus initio, ne frustra ingressus turpem causam videretur, legem promulg …

Martial, Epigrammata 9.45.6: Saxa senis, dices 'Durior ipse fuit.'

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.