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violenter

violenter is a Latin form of violens, meaning “violent”. It is the adjective.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Horace, Carmina 1.2.14: litore Etrusco violenter undis

Livy, Ab urbe condita 30.31.7: ceterum quemadmodum superbe et uiolenter me faterer facere si priusquam in Africam traiecissem te tua uoluntate cedentem Italia et imposito in naues exercitu ipsum uenientem ad pacem petendam aspernarer,

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.25: … sum attrahere gestiunt. Sed audacia valida resistens ille fidem hominum deumque testabatur: Quid me raptatis? Violenter quid invaditis?Ain, te nos tractamus inciviliter, qui nostrum asinum furatus abducis? Quin potius effaris ubi …

All forms of violens (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.