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violentior

violentior is a Latin form of violentus, meaning “violent, impetuous, forceful”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective or vocative singular masculine comparative adjective or nominative singular feminine comparative adjective or vocative singular feminine comparative adjective.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 76: … fecit — nomen amici mei de ambitu detulit; quem absolutum insequitur, revocat; nemini nostrum obtemperat, est violentior quam vellem. sed ego non loquor de sapientia, quae non cadit in hanc aetatem; de impetu animi loquor, de cupi …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.59.2: ceterum multo Appio quam Fabio uiolentior fuit; non enim uincere tantum noluit, ut Fabianus exercitus, sed uinci uoluit. productus in aciem turpi fuga petit castra, nec ante restitit quam signa inferentem Uolscum munimentis uidit foedamque extremi agminis caedem.

All forms of violentus (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.