degenerate/base; inferior to ancestors
Latin word, found 75 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Aeneid 2.549: degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento.
Ovid, Heroides 16.173: Non ego coniugium generosae degener opto,
Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.1.45: hanc cave degeneres, ut sint praeconia nostra
All forms of degener