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validius

validius is a Latin form of validus, meaning “strong”. It is the comparative adverb.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Tacitus, Annales 1·155: … igni tranquillitate vitae, nullis rei publicae negotiis permixtos. sed si dubitatione Augusti movemur, quanto validius est quod Marco Agrippae, mox mihi conlocavit? atque ego haec pro amicitia non occultavi: ceterum neque tuis n …

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.6.4: … enex amans, senex ebrius, circumdatus sertis et delibutus unguentis et in praeteritos annos se retro agens et ualidius in uoluptatibus quam iuuenis exultans, nonne portentum est? Luxuriosus adulescens peccat; at senex luxuriosus …

All forms of validus (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.