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eager only for glory

  • 1 avārus

        avārus adj. with comp. and sup.    [1 AV-], eagerly desirous, grasping: mare, H.: venter, ravenous, H.: laudis, H.: pecuniae, Ta.: avarae Spes, too ambitious, H.: praeter laudem nullius, eager only for glory, H.: Agricola, zealous, V.—Avaricious, covetous, penurious: meretrix, T.: homo minime: quantum discordet parcus avaro, H.: in rapacitate avidior?: homo avarissime: litus, V.: Troia, O.— As subst, a miser, covetous men: Semper avarus eget, H.
    * * *
    I
    avara -um, avarior -or -us, avarissimus -a -um ADJ
    avaricious, greedy; stingy, miserly, mean; covetous, hungry for
    II
    miser; stingy/mean/greedy person

    Latin-English dictionary > avārus

  • 2 avarus

    ăvārus, a, um, adj. ( gen. plur. fem. avarūm, Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 9 dub.; Speng., aurum) [1. aveo, Gell. 10, 5, 13], eagerly desirous of something, esp. of possessions, avaricious, covetous, greedy (opp. largus, Quadrig. ap. Non. p. 510, 20: avarum et avidum ita discernuntur: avarum semper in reprehensione est;

    avidum autem malis aliquando, aliquando bonis adjungitur,

    Non. p. 442, 12 sq.; v. II.; syn.: avidus, cupidus, tenax, sordidus).
    I.
    Lit.:

    meretrix,

    Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 5, and Cat. 110, 7; cf.:

    Carmine formosae, pretio capiuntur avarae,

    Tib. 3, 1, 7:

    leno,

    Ter. Heaut. prol. 39:

    avarus et furax homo,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 268:

    semper avarus eget,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 56:

    quantum discordet parcus avaro,

    id. ib. 2, 2, 194.—With gen.:

    publicae pecuniae,

    Tac. H. 1, 49:

    caedis,

    Claud. B. Get. 606 et saep.— Poet. transf. to inanimate things:

    fuge litus avarum,

    Verg. A. 3, 44 ( = avarorum, Serv.):

    Troja, i. e. with reference to the perjured avarice of Laomedon,

    Ov. M. 11, 208 (cf.:

    perjura Troja,

    Verg. A. 5, 811; Ov. M. 11, 215):

    fraus,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 37:

    spes,

    id. ib. 4, 11, 25:

    venter,

    id. Ep. 1, 15, 32:

    mare,

    id. C. 3, 29, 61: Acheron. Verg. G. 2, 492:

    ignis,

    Prop. 3, 26, 10 al. —
    II.
    Transf., in the poets sometimes without the access. idea of reproach: Graiis praeter laudem nullius avaris, eager only for glory, Hor.A.P.324:

    agricola,

    Verg. G. 1, 48.— Comp.:

    avariores magistratus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 82:

    ruberes, Viveret in terris te si quis avarior uno,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 157. — Sup.:

    homo avarissime et spurcissime,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 37.— Adv., covetously, greedily, avariciously, etc.
    a.
    Ante-class. form ăvārĭter, Cato and Quadrig. ap. Non. p. 510, 17:

    ingurgitare,

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 35. —Of gluttony:

    si quis avidus poscit escam avariter,

    Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 12; cf. avaritia, II.—
    b.
    Class. form ăvārē:

    avare pretium statui arti meae,

    Ter. Heaut. prol. 48:

    aliquid facere,

    Cic. Off. 3, 8, 37; Nep. Lys. 4, 1:

    superbe avareque imperitare victis,

    Liv. 21, 1, 3; cf. Curt. 4, 7.— Comp., more eagerly, more greedily:

    avarius exigere opus,

    Col. 1, 7, 1.— Sup.:

    avarissime horas suas servare,

    Sen. Ot. Sap. 32.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > avarus

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