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ferocius

ferocius is a Latin form of ferox, meaning “fierce, bold, warlike; defiant”. It is the adverb.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.9.2: … m vos duo tales ad quintum miliarium quid nunc ipsum de se recipienti, quid agenti, quid acturo? quanto autem ferocius ille causae suae confidet, cum vos, cum vestri similis non modo frequentis sed laeto vultu gratulantis videri …

Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.7.13.6: vagabantur; tum Clusium urbem obsidebant. Pro sociis ac foederatis Romanus intervenit; missi ex more legati. Sed quod ius apud barbaros? Ferocius agunt, et inde certamen.

All forms of ferox (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.