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mōrālis , e, adj. mores,
I.of or belonging to manners or morals, moral (a word formed by Cicero; cf. moratus): quia pertinet ad mores, quos ἤθη Graeci vocant, nos eam partem philosophiae de moribus appellare solemus. Sed decet augentem linguam Latinam nominare moralem, Cic. Fat. 1, 1; “imitated by Seneca and Quintil.: philosophiae tres partes esse dixerunt, moralem, naturalem, et rationalem,Sen. Ep. 89, 9; Quint. 12, 2, 10: pars illa philosophiae ἠθική moralis est dicta, id. 6, 2, 8; cf. “also,id. 12, 2, 19 and 20: “epistolae,Gell. 12, 2, 3. —Hence, adv.: mōrālĭter , in a characteristic manner, characteristically, Don. ad Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 35; Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 2.—Esp., morally, Ambros. Apol. David. 6.—Comp.: “moralius,Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 1, 5.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, De Fato, 1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 6, 2.8
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 2.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 2.19
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 12.2.3
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 89.9
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