I.clean, pure, sound, not spoiled, uninjured, whole, entire, real, natural, genuine, sincere (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense; cf.: simplex, verus, incorruptus).
I. Lit.: “omnia fucata et simulata a sinceris atque veris (internoscere),” Cic. Lael. 25, 95: “aliquem ab omni incommodo, detrimento, molestiā sincerum integrumque conservare,” unharmed, unhurt, id. Fam. 13, 50, 2: “corpus (with sine vulnere),” Ov. M. 12, 100; cf. “pars,” id. ib. 1, 191: “membra,” Lucr. 3, 717: “porci sacres,” sound, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 16; cf. in comp.: cum jam me sinceriore corpusculo factum diceret (medicus), Gell. 18, 10, 4: sincerum tergum ... corium sincerissimum, clear (of weals), Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 51 sq.; cf. “so, corium,” id. Most. 4, 1, 13: “vas,” clean, Hor. S. 1, 3, 56; id. Ep. 1, 2, 54: “ex amphorā primum quod est sincerissimum effluit,” Sen. Ep. 108, 26: “lac,” Col. 7, 8, 1; so, “Amineum,” id. 12, 47, 6: “crocus,” Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 32: “axungia,” id. 28, 9, 37, § 135: “gemma (opp. sordium plena),” id. 37, 8, 33, § 110: “propria et sincera et tantum sui similis gens,” unmixed, pure, Tac. G. 4; so, “populus,” id. H. 4, 64 fin.; Suet. Aug. 40: “nobilitas,” Liv. 4, 4, 7: “nitor,” Sen. Ep. 66, 46.— Comp.: lux sincerior, App. de Mundo, p. 58, 29.—*
b. Sincerum, adverb.: “non sincerum sonĕre,” that it does not ring clearly, is not genuine, Lucr. 3, 873.—
II. Trop.: “Atheniensium semper fuit prudens sincerumque judicium,” sound, uncorrupted, Cic. Or. 8, 25: “nihil erat in ejus (Cottae) oratione nisi sincerum,” id. Brut. 55, 202; cf.: “esse videtur Homeri (versus) simplicior et sincerior,” Gell. 13, 26, 3; so, “sincera gratia sermonis Attici,” Quint. 10, 1, 65: “sincera et integra natura,” Tac. Or. 28 fin.: “animus,” Sen. Cons. Helv. 11, 6: “vir,” id. Ep. 73, 4: “opiniones,” id. ib. 94, 68: “Minerva,” pure, chaste, Ov. M. 8, 664: “sincerum equestre proelium,” unmixed, pure, Liv. 30, 11: “non sincerum gaudium praebere,” not unmixed, not undisturbed, id. 34, 41; so, “gaudium,” id. 44, 44: “gaudium sincerius,” Just. 10, 1, 3: “voluptas,” Ov. M. 7, 453: “fama,” unblemished, Gell. 6, 8, 5: “Thucydides rerum gestarum pronunciator sincerus,” honest, candid, upright, Cic. Brut. 83, 287; cf.: “Fabii Annales, bonae atque sincerae vetustatis libri,” Gell. 5, 4, 1.— Sup.: “Q. Claudius optimus et sincerissimus scriptor,” Gell. 15, 1, 4: “verus atque sincerus Stoicus,” id. 1, 2, 7 et saep.: “mirabilia multa, nihil simplex, nihil sincerum,” natural, genuine, Cic. Att. 10, 6, 2: “nihil est jam sanctum neque sincerum in civitate,” id. Quint. 1, 5: “aliquid non sinceri,” id. Div. 2, 57, 118: “fides,” Liv. 39, 2, 1: “concordia,” Tac. A. 3, 64: “caritas,” id. ib. 2, 42.—Hence, advv.
a. sincērē , uprightly, honestly, well, frankly, sincerely: sincere dicere, * Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 97: “satin' ego oculis utilitatem obtineo sincere, an parum,” Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 28: “sincere et ex animo dicere,” Cat. 109, 4: pronunciare, * Caes. B. G. 7, 20: agere, Attic. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 9: “administrare provincias,” Val. Max. 2, 2, 8.—Comp., Gell. 6 ($3), 3, 55.—Sup., Aug. Ep. ad Volus. 3 fin.— *
