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meliora

meliora is a Latin form of bonus, meaning “good”. It is the accusative plural neuter comparative adjective.

Found 172 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 66: … m tibi. sed si illius comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris, non ista quidem erunt meliora, quae nunc sunt optima, sed certe condita iucundius.

Seneca the Younger, Agamemnon 406a: Meliora votis posco et obtestor deos:

All forms of bonus (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.