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imprōvĭdus (inpr- ), a, um, adj. 2. in-providus,
I.not foreseeing, not anticipating, improvident (class.; syn.: incautus, imprudens, inconsultus).
(α). Absol.: “duces,” Cic. Att. 7, 20, 2: “senes,” id. Lael. 26, 100: “improvidos incautosque hostes opprimere,” Liv. 22, 19, 6; Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1: “hominum mentes occupare,” id. Lig. 6, 17: “pectora,” Verg. A. 2, 200: “adulescens improvida aetate,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62 fin.: “aetas puerorum,” Lucr. 1, 939; 4, 14: “tela, quae et ipsa caeca et improvida feruntur,” aimless, Plin. Ep. 4, 22, 5: “festinatio inprovida est et caeca,” Liv. 22, 39, 22.—
(β). With gen.: “futuri certaminis Romanus veniebat,” Liv. 26, 39, 7: “rudis et improvida hujus mali civitas,” Plin. 36, 3, 3, § 7: “(Vitellius) ignarus militiae, improvidus consilii,” Tac. H. 3, 56.—*
(γ). With inf.: “hasta improvida servasse spatium campi distantis,” Sil. 4, 286.—Adv.: imprōvĭdē , improvidently: “se in praeceps dare,” Liv. 27, 27, 11; Col. 6, 17, 35.
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 (15):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 7.20.2
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 2.16.1
    • Cicero, For Ligarius, 6.17
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.200
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.56
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.939
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.14
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 36.7
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.22.5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 27, 27.11
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 19
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 39
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 39.7
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 26
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.21
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