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melioribus

melioribus is a Latin form of bonus, meaning “good”. It is the ablative plural masculine comparative adjective or ablative plural feminine comparative adjective or ablative plural neuter comparative adjective or dative plural masculine comparative adjective.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 2.18: … oluissent neque, id quod stultissimum est, certare cum usuris fructibus praediorum, et locupletioribus his et melioribus civibus uteremur. sed hosce homines minime puto pertimescendos, quod aut deduci de sententia possunt aut, si …

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 4.P4·3: … ur affectus, uel licentiam uel impunitatem scelerum putant esse felicem. Vide autem quid aeterna lex sauciat. Melioribus animum conformaueris, nihil opus est iudice praemium deferente tu te ipse excellentioribus addidisti. Studium …

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.