I.beautiful, beauteous, fair, handsome, in shape and appearance (syn.: speciosus, venustus, formosus).
I. Lit.: homo, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 40 Vahl.): “o puerum pulchrum,” Cic. Off. 1, 40, 144; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 74: “pulcher ac decens,” Suet. Dom. 18: “virgo pulchra!” Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 54: “pulchra juvenis,” Phaedr. 2, 2, 5: “quo pulchrior alter Non fuit Aeneadūm,” Verg. A. 9, 179: “formā pulcherrima,” id. ib. 1, 496; cf.: Venus quem pulcherrima dium Fari donavit, Enn. ap. Prob. ap. Verg. E. 6, 31 (Ann. v. 18 Vahl.): “O matre pulchrā filia pulchrior,” Hor. C. 1, 16, 1; “as an epithet of Apollo,” Verg. A. 3, 119 Serv.: “satus Hercule pulchro Pulcher Aventinus,” id. ib. 7, 656: “pulcher bos appellatur ad eximiam pinguedinem perductus,” Fest. p. 238 Müll.: “pulchro corpore creti,” Lucr. 5, 1116: “o faciem pulchram!” Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 5: “fuit vultu pulchro magis quam venusto,” Suet. Ner. 51: “color,” Lucr. 4, 1133 and 1094: “mulier pulchra nimis,” Vulg. Gen. 12, 14: “tunicae,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 33: “testudo,” Verg. G. 2, 463: “recessus,” Ov. M. 14, 261: “horti,” id. P. 1, 8, 37: “fluvius,” Verg. G. 2, 137; Val. Fl. 5, 486: “quid potest esse aspectu pulchrius?” Cic. Sen. 15, 53: “urbs pulcherrima,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 117; Liv. 7, 30, 16: “pulcherrimorum agrorum judex,” Cic. Agr. 2, 16, 43: “acetum acerrimum et pulcherrimum,” Cato, R. R. 104: “panis longe pulcherrimus,” Hor. S. 1, 5, 89: “pulcherrima opera,” Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 69.—Subst.: pulchrum , i, n., beauty: “quid habet pulchri constructus acervus,” Hor. S. 1, 1, 44.—
II. Trop., in a spiritual or moral sense, beautiful, fine, excellent, noble, honorable, glorious, illustrious, etc.: “praetor interea, ne pulchrum se ac beatum putaret,” that he might not think too highly of himself, Cic. Mur. 12, 26: “res publica paulatim immutata ex pulcherrimā pessima ac flagitiosissima facta est,” Sall. C. 5, 9; Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118: “pulcherrimum exemplum,” Caes. B. G. 7, 77: “maximum et pulcherrimum facinus,” Sall. C. 20, 3: “fasces,” Lucr. 5, 1234: “pulcherrima consilia,” Verg. A. 5, 728: “nascetur pulchrā Trojanus origine Caesar,” id. ib. 1, 286: “poëmata,” Hor. S. 1, 10, 6: “divitiae,” id. ib. 2, 3, 95: “dies,” favorable, fortunate, id. C. 1, 36, 10: “o Sol pulcher, o laudande,” id. ib. 4, 2, 47; “4, 4, 39: pulcherrimus exitus,” Flor. 2, 2, 14: “viae ejus viae pulchrae,” Vulg. Prov. 3, 17: “pulchrum sub pectore vulnus,” honorable, Sil. 5, 594: “quae majori parti pulcherrima videntur, ea maxime exoptant,” Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118.—Poet., with gen.: pulcherrimus irae, glorious on account of (just) wrath, Sil. 11, 365.—Pulchrum (est), with a subj. -clause, it is beautiful, grand, glorious, etc.: “cui pulchrum fuit in medios dormire dies,” to whom it seemed a fine thing, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 30: “pulchrumque mori succurrit in armis,” Verg. A. 2, 317: “pulchrius hac fuerat, Troja, perire tibi,” Prop. 2, 2, 44 (2, 3, 34): pulchrum putare, ducere, to think or consider beautiful: “pati pulchrum Romanumque putant,” Luc. 9, 391: “turpe ducet cedere pari, pulchrum superasse majores,” Quint. 1, 2, 22. —As a translation of the Gr. ὁ καλός (a complimentary formula), handsome, lovely, noble: propino hoc pulchro Critiae, Κριτίᾳ τῷ καλῷ, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 96.—Hence, adv.: pulchrē (-crē ), beautifully, excellently, finely, nobly, very, etc.: “subigere aliquid,” Cato, R. R. 74: “aedes probae pulchreque aedificatae,” Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 61: “oppidum pulchre munitum,” id. Pers. 4, 4, 6: “vendere,” i. e. at a high price, id. ib. 4, 4, 31; “38: conciliare,” at a low price, id. Ep. 3, 4, 36: “victitare,” id. Most. 1, 1, 51: “admonere,” id. Mil. 2, 6, 56: “pulchre dictum,” Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 26: “pulchre et oratorie dicere,” Cic. Or. 68, 227: “pulchre asseverat,” bravely, cunningly, id. Clu. 26, 73: “proxima hostia litatur saepe pulcherrime,” very favorably, id. Div. 2, 15, 36: ferre fortunam secundam pulcherrime, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 6: “intellegere,” Cic. Fam. 11, 3, 3: “Caesar ait se non posse galeam cognoscere, hominem pulchre posse,” Sen. Ben. 5, 24, 2: “peristi pulchre,” you have done for yourself finely, utterly, Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 50; so, “occidi,” id. Curc. 1, 3, 58.—Pulchre est mihi, I am well, it goes well with me, Cic. N. D. 1, 41, 114; Hor. S. 2, 8, 19; Cat. 23, 5.—Pulchre esse, to live well, enjoy one's self, be happy, Plaut. Merc. 3, 3, 21: “neque ligna ego praehiberi vidi pulcrius,” in greater abundance, id. Aul. 3, 1, 5: “pulchre, as an exclamation of applause (like recte, probe, etc.),” excellently! bravo! well done! Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 4; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 92; Hor. A. P. 428.
