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admirabilis

admirabilis · adj

Worthy of admiration

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Where it lives

Pro Q. Ligario 3 · 9.15/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
de Natura Deorum 16 · 4.47/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 4 · 4.09/10k
Orator 7 · 3.79/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 27 · 3.4/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

admīrābĭlis — Lewis & Short

admīrābĭlis, e, adj.admiror.

I Worthy of admiration, admirable, wonderful: admirabilis in dicendo vir, Cic. de Or. 1, 2: O clementiam admirabilem, id. Lig. 2, 6: gravitatem atque constantiam, id. Phil. 13, 41: scientia, id. ib. 9, 10.— Ironically: o admirabilem impudentiam, audaciam, temeritatem, Cic. Phil. 3, 7, 18; so, o admirabilior oratio, id. Or. 35: magnitudo pop. R. admirabilior adversis rebus quam secundis, Liv. 22, 37: admirabilem licentiam, Cic. Fat. 16: quam admirabile est nomen, Vulg. Psa. 8, 2: de tenebris vos vocavit in admirabile lumen suum, ib. 1 Pet. 2, 9.—

II That produces wonder, wonderful, astonishing, strange, rare, paradoxical: haec para/doca ili, nos admirabilia dicamus, Cic. Fin. 4, 27; cf. id. Par. praef. and Par. 4: admirabile genus (causae), a quo alienatus est animus eorum qui audituri sunt, id. Inv. 1, 15, 20: concursus, id. ib. 10, 7: gloria, id. ib. 3, 26.—Comp.: non esse admirabilius Romanos Graeciā pelli quam Hannibalem Italiā pulsum esse, Liv. 42, 50; also Flor. 4, 2, 47.—Sup. not used.—Adv.: admīrābĭlĭter (only in the posit.).

1 Admirably, Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; id. Opt. Gen. Or. 6, 37; id. Att. 5, 14, 2.—

2 Paradoxically, strangely, parado/cws, Cic. Tusc. 4, 16 fin.

In the wild

admirabili Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.21.5
admirabilem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.13.p1
admirabilem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.9.1
admirabilis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.9
admirabilia Cicero, De Partitione Oratoria 73
admirabile Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.7.pr

6 of 169 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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