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improvidus

improvidus · adj

not foreseeing

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Where it lives

Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 29 1 · 0.81/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Historiae 3 · 0.58/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

imprōvĭdus — Lewis & Short

imprōvĭdus (inpr-), a, um, adj.2. in-providus,

I not foreseeing, not anticipating, improvident (class.; syn.: incautus, imprudens, inconsultus).

(a) Absol.: duces, Cic. Att. 7, 20, 2: senes, id. Lael. 26, 100: improvidos incautosque hostes opprimere, Liv. 22, 19, 6; Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1: hominum mentes occupare, id. Lig. 6, 17: pectora, Verg. A. 2, 200: adulescens improvida aetate, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62 fin.: aetas puerorum, Lucr. 1, 939; 4, 14: tela, quae et ipsa caeca et improvida feruntur, aimless, Plin. Ep. 4, 22, 5: festinatio inprovida est et caeca, Liv. 22, 39, 22.—

(b) With gen.: futuri certaminis Romanus veniebat, Liv. 26, 39, 7: rudis et improvida hujus mali civitas, Plin. 36, 3, 3, § 7: (Vitellius) ignarus militiae, improvidus consilii, Tac. H. 3, 56.—*

(g) With inf.: hasta improvida servasse spatium campi distantis, Sil. 4, 286.—Adv.: imprōvĭdē, improvidently: se in praeceps dare, Liv. 27, 27, 11; Col. 6, 17, 35.

In the wild

improuidus Silius Italicus, Punica 9.389
inprovidus Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.273
improvidus Tacitus, Historiae 1.90
inprovidos Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.45.3
inprovidam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.7.p2
inprouida Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.2e.17

6 of 35 attestations shown.

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