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vilior

vilior is a Latin form of vilis, meaning “cheap; worthless, common, mean”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 103: … uoad viveres non modo munitum sed etiam ornatum fore pollicebar. putavi, speravi, etiam si honos noster vobis vilior fuisset, salutem certe caram futuram.

Martial, Epigrammata 10.73.5: Vilior haec nobis alio mittente fuisset;

Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.41.8: Cassius, quia in agraria largitione ambitiosus in socios eoque ciuibus uilior erat, ut alio munere sibi reconciliaret ciuium animos, iubere pro Siculo frumento pecuniam acceptam retribui populo.

All forms of vilis (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.