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peiora

peiora is a Latin form of malus, meaning “bad, evil”. It is the accusative plural neuter comparative adjective.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.15: … duxit mali. ceteri praeter Zenonem, Aristonem, Pyrrhonem idem fere quod modo tu: malum illud quidem, sed alia peiora.

Seneca the Younger, Thyestes 309: Peiora iuvenes facile praecepta audiunt.

All forms of malus (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.