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nōbĭlis, e (old collat. form gnōbĭlis: nobilem antiqui pro noto ponebant, et quidem per g litteram, ut Plautus in Pseudolo: peregrina facies videtur hominis atque ignobilis, et: oculis meis obviam ignobilis obicitur. Attius in Diomede: ergo me Argos referam, nam hic sum gnobilis. Livius in Virgo: ornamento incedunt gnobili ignobiles, Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.), adj. [for gnobilis, from gnosco; Gr. gignôskô; v. nosco], that can be known or is known, knowable, known.I.In gen. (very rare):II.neque his umquam nobilis fui,
Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 9:addidit facinori fidem nobili gaudio,
Tac. H. 3, 39.—In partic.A.Wellknown, famous, noted, celebrated, renowned (freq. and class.; cf.:B.clarus, insignis, inclutus, illustris): die festo celebri nobilique, Aphrodisiis,
Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 13:magnus et nobilis rhetor Isocrates,
Cic. Inv. 2, 2, 7:illustre et nobile municipium,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 40:oppidum clarum et nobile,
id. ib. 2, 1, 24, §63: ex doctrinā nobilis et clarus,
id. Rab. Post. 9, 23:gladiatorum par nobilissimum,
id. Opt. Gen. 6, 17:multi in philosophiā praeclari et nobiles,
id. de Or. 1, 11, 46:ut arcendis sceleribus exemplum nobile esset,
Liv. 2, 5:Corinthus aere,
Ov. M. 6, 416:puerosque Ledae, Hunc equis, illum superare pugnis Nobilem,
Hor. C. 1, 12, 25:palma nobilis,
id. ib. 1, 1, 5:nobilis e tectis fundere gaesa rotis,
Prop. 4 (5), 10, 42:tamquam Feceris ipse aliquid propter quod nobilis esses,
Juv. 8, 41: aquae salubritate et medendis corporibus nobiles. Vell. 2, 25, 4:vitulis marinis ad multa nobile fel,
Plin. 11, 37, 75, § 195:emplastra nobilia ad extrahendum fel,
Cels. 5, 19:Cicero vir nobilissimae novitatis,
Vell. 2, 34, 3.—In a bad sense, notorious:innocentes qui se scelere fieri nolunt nobiles,
Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 5:mea (amica) est potens, procax, magnifica, sumtuosa, nobilis,
Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 15:ille nobilis taurus, quem Phalaris habuisse dicitur,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 73; Liv. 39, 9, 5.—High-born, of noble birth, noble, i. e. sprung from a family (either patrician or plebeian) many members of which had filled curule offices, and consequently possessing the jus imaginum (opp. homo novus or ignobilis; cf.:C.generosus, amplus): non facit nobilem atrium plenum fumosis imaginibus,
Sen. Ep. 44, 5:quanta sit in invidiā apud quosdam nobilis homines novorum hominum virtus et industria,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 71, § 181:Clodia mulier non solum nobilis sed etiam nota,
id. Cael. 13, 31:nobili genere nati,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 70, § 180:homines apud nos noti, inter suos nobiles,
id. Fl. 22, 52; Liv. 22, 58.—Hence, subst.: nōbĭlis, is, m., a nobleman:nobiles nostri,
Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 5; Vulg. Isa. 5, 13; id. Psa. 149, 8: Nobilissimus, most noble, under the later emperors, a title of the Cæsars and of the members of the imperial family, Cod. Th. 10, 25, 1; Dig. 40, 11, 3.—Of a noble kind, noble, excellent, superior:tres nobilissimi fundi,
Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 99:nobiliumque greges custos servabat equarum,
Ov. M. 2, 690:nobilis hic (equus), quocumque venit de gramine,
Juv. 8, 60.—Hence, adv.: nōbĭlĭter, famously, excellently, splendidly, nobly (mostly post-Aug.;not in Cic. or Cæs.),
Vitr. 7 praef.:nobiliter caelare argentum,
Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 91.— Comp.:nobilius philosophari,
Sid. Ep. 9, 9.— Sup.:ab exercitu nobilissime tumulatus,
Liv. Epit. 54.
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