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detestabilis

detestabilis · adj

execrable, abominable, detestable

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
De Clementia 2 · 2.4/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Metamorphoses 8 · 1.5/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Saturae 3 · 1.21/10k
Philippicae 6 · 1.14/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dētestābĭlis — Lewis & Short

dētestābĭlis, e, adj.detestor,

I execrable, abominable, detestable (good prose): omen, Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 11; cf.: exsecratus populo Romano, detestabilis, etc., id. ib. 2, 26 fin.: nihil esse tam detestabile tamque pestiferum quam voluptatem, id. de Sen. 12, 41; cf. res (with tetra, misera), id. Tusc. 3, 11 fin.: scelus, id. Lael. 8, 27: exemplum, Liv. 26, 48: voce, Suet. Vit. 10 et saep.—Comp., Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57; Vulg. Sap. 19, 13.—Sup. appears not to occur.—Adv., dētestābĭlĭter, abominably: quod nefarie, quod detestabiliter fecit, Lact. 5, 10, 7.

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