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tolerabilis

tolerabilis · adj

that may be borne

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Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 2 · 12.63/10k
De Constantia 3 · 5.68/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 2 · 2.37/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 2 · 2.1/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 3 · 2/10k
Brutus 5 · 1.99/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tŏlĕrābĭlis — Lewis & Short

tŏlĕrābĭlis, e, adj.tolero.

I Pass., that may be borne, bearable, supportable, endurable, passable, tolerable (class.): amicitiae si tolerabiles erunt, ferendae sunt, Cic. Lael. 21, 78: tolerabilis conditio servitutis, id. Cat. 4, 8, 16: genus rei publicae, id. Rep. 1, 26, 42: fenus, id. Att. 6, 1, 16: hoc utcumque tolerabile: gravius illud quod, etc., Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 2: regi tolerabili, aut, si vultis, etiam amabili, Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44; cf. orator, id. Brut. 48, 178: oratores, id. de Or. 1, 2, 8: Minucius jam ante vix tolerabilis, Liv. 22, 27, 1: non tolerabile numen, Verg. A. 5, 768: habitus, Val. Max. 4, 1, 1.—Comp.: senectus, Cic. Sen. 3, 8: tolerabilius est sic dicere, etc., id. de Or. 1, 50, 218.—Sup.: sententia, Dig. 28, 5, 18. —

II Act., that can easily bear or endure, enduring, sustaining, supporting (rare; not in Cic.; but cf. tolerabiliter, 2.): homo, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 31: quas (oves) ille tempore auctumni ratus adhuc esse tolerabiles, i. e. able to support the winter, Col. 7, 3, 14.—Adv.: tŏlĕrābĭ-lĭter.

1 Bearably, passably, tolerably: facere aliquid, Col. 11, 2, 85: dicere, id. 2, 2, 3: dare veratrum, Cels. 2, 13.—

2 For toleranter, patiently: etenim si dolores eosdem tolerabilius patiuntur, Cic. Fin. 3, 13, 42; so, tolerabilius ferre igniculum desiderii, id. Fam. 15, 20, 2.

In the wild

tolerabilius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 15.20.2
Tolerabilius Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 33
tolerabilius Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.55
tolerabilius Celsus, De Medicina 5.26.p7
tolerabilis Celsus, De Medicina 4.26
tolerabilius Cicero, De Oratore 1.218

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