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ab-sŏnus , a, um, adj.
I. Deviating from the right tone, discordant, dissonant, inharmonious: “sunt quidam ita voce absoni, ut ... in oratorum numerum venire non possint,” Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115: “vox absona atque absurda,” id. ib. 3, 11, 41.— Hence,
II. In gen., not harmonizing with a thing, not accordant with, unsuitable, incongruous; constr. with ab or ( = alienus) with dat. or absol.: “nec absoni a voce motus erant,” Liv. 7, 2: “nihil absonum fidei divinae originis fuit,” id. 1, 15: “fortunis absona dicta,” Hor. A. P. 112.—Absol.: “nihil absonum, nihil agreste,” Quint. 6, 3, 107; cf. id. 12, 10, 32.—Adv.: absŏnē , discordantly, incongruously, Gell. 15, 25; App. Mag. p. 277.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 112
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.25
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 15
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 3.107
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 10.32
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 15.25
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