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in-cultus , a, um, adj.,
I.untilled, uncultivated (class.).
II. Transf., undressed, unadorned, unpolished, neglected, rude (mostly poet.): “coma,uncombed, disordered, Ov. F. 3, 470: “genae,disfigured, id. H. 8, 64: “homo, ut vita, sic oratione durus, incultus, horridus,Cic. Brut. 31, 117: “inculta atque rusticana parsimonia,id. Quint. 30: “indocti incultique,without education, Sall. C. 2, 8: “homines intonsi et inculti,Liv. 21, 32, 7: “versus,unpolished, rude, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 233: “ingenium,uncultivated, id. ib. 1, 3, 22: “Laestrygones,” i. e. destitute of cultivation, savage, wild, Tib. 4, 1, 59.—Hence, adv.: incultē , in an uncultivated manner, roughly, rudely, uncouthly, inelegantly: “inculte atque horride vivere,Cic. Quint. 18: “incultius agitare,Sall. J. 20, 5: “agere,id. ib. 89, 7: “inculte horrideque dicere,Cic. Or. 9, 28: “non inculte dicere,id. Brut. 28.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Cicero, On the Consular Provinces, 12.29
    • Cicero, For Quintus Roscius the Actor, 12.33
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 89
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 34.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 32
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.10
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 2
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 20
    • Cicero, Brutus, 28
    • Cicero, Brutus, 31.117
    • Cicero, Brutus, 4.16
    • Cicero, Orator, 9.28
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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