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gravius

gravius is a Latin form of gravis, meaning “heavy; serious; important”. It is the adverb or comparative adverb or nominative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 264 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.14.1: His Caesar ita respondit: eo sibi minus dubitationis dari, quod eas res quas legati Helvetii commemorassent memoria teneret, atque eo gravius ferre quo minus merito populi Romani accidissent;

Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.333: dicta Iovis firmat. Gravius Saturnia iusto

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 13: … obilitatis Iugurtha veniret. Quorum pars spe, alii praemio inducti singulos ex senatu ambiendo nitebantur, ne grauius in eum consuleretur. Igitur ubi legati satis confidunt, die constituto senatus utrisque datur. Tum Adherbalem …

All forms of gravis (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.