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satius

satius is a Latin form of sero, meaning “sow, plant; join together”. It is the nominative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 151 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 150: … e animos — id quod fieri profecto non potest — duriores acerbioresque reddit, actum est, iudices; inter feras satius est aetatem degere quam in hac tanta immanitate versari.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.9.8: Satius est enim, ut Atilius noster eruditissime simul et facetissime dixit, otiosum esse quam nihil agere. Vale.

All forms of sero (conjugation 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.