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audax , ācis, adj. from audeo, as ferax from fero, capax from capio,
I.daring, in a good, but oftener in a bad sense, bold, courageous, spirited; audacious, rash, presumptuous, foolhardy (syn.: fortis, temerarius).
I. Lit.
b. Constr.,
(α). With abl.: “viribus audax,Verg. A. 5, 67: “audax juventā,id. G. 4, 565.—
(β). With gen.: “audax ingenii,Stat. S. 3, 2, 64; 5, 3, 135: “animi,id. Th. 10, 495; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 4; Sil. 14, 416.—
(δ). With ad: “ad facinus audacior,Cic. Cat. 2, 5.—
II. Transf. to things: “audax facinus,Ter. Eun. 4, 3, 2; so id. And. 2, 3, 27; id. Phorm. 1, 3, 4; so, “animus,Sall. C. 5, 4: “consilium,Liv. 25, 38: “lingua,Vulg. Eccli. 21, 8: “res,Liv. 26, 38: “spes audacior,Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 35: “paupertas,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 51: “dithyrambi,id. C. 4, 2, 10: verba, bold, i. e. unusual, poetic, Quint. 10, 5, 4: “hyperbole audacioris ornatūs,id. 8, 6, 67: “volatus,Ov. M. 8, 223 al.
III. Meton., violent, fierce, proud: Nunc audax cave sis, *Cat. 50, 18: “ambitiosus et audax,Hor. S. 2, 3, 165: “Cerberus,Tib. 1, 10, 35: “leones,Vulg. Sap. 11, 18: “Hecate,Sen. Med. 844.—Adv., boldly, courageously, audaciously; in two forms,
a. audācĭter (the original but unusual form; cf.: licet omnes oratores aliud sequantur, i. e. the form audacter, Quint. 1, 6, 17): Multa scelerate, multa audaciter, multa improbe fecisti, Cic. Rosc. Am. 36, 104 B. and K.; cf. Prisc. p. 1014 P.; “Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. l. l.: audaciter se laturum fuisse de etc.,Liv. 22, 25: “audaciter negantem,id. 40, 55 Weissenb.; Sen. Prov. 4.—
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