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-gĕner , is (abl. degeneri, Tac. A. 12, 19), adj. genus,
I.that departs from its race or kind, degenerate, not genuine (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; esp. freq. in Plin. and Tac.; not in Quint. and Suet.).
(β). With gen.: “patrii non degener oris,Ov. Pont. 3, 5, 7; so, “sanguinis,Stat. Th. 9, 619: “patriae artis,Ov. M. 11, 314: “altae virtutis patrum,Sil. 10, 68; Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 44.—
II. Transf., mentally or morally degenerate, ignoble, base: “Muttinem sibi modum facere, degenerem Afrum!Liv. 25, 40, 12: “Artabanum materna origine Arsacidem, cetera degenerem,Tac. A. 6, 42; cf.: “vitā non degener,id. ib. 4, 61: “non degener ad pericula,id. ib. 1, 40: “degeneres animos timor arguit,Verg. A. 4, 13: “animi,Luc. 6, 417: “metus,id. 3, 149: “questus,Val. Fl. 1, 164: “preces,Tac. A. 12, 36 fin.: “projectus,id. H. 3, 65 fin.: “insidiae,id. A. 11, 19 et saep.—Of language: “bilingues, paulatim a domestico externo sermone degeneres,Curt. 7, 5, 29.—Poet.: “toga (for togati),Luc. 1, 365.—With abl. ( = indignus): “degener haud Gracchis consul,Sil. 4, 5, 17: “tantoduce,Ambros. de Jacob. 2, 11, 45.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.314
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.549
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 4.13
    • Tacitus, Annales, 11.19
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.19
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.62
    • Tacitus, Annales, 6.42
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.36
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.65
    • Lucan, Civil War, 1.365
    • Lucan, Civil War, 3.149
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.417
    • Lucan, Civil War, 8.693
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.8
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 17.33
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.58
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.44
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 40
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 38, 17
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 38, 49
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1.164
    • Statius, Thebias, 9
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 7.5.29
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