speciōsus adj.
species,
good-looking, showy, handsome, beautiful, splendid, brilliant
: familia gladiatoria: alqs pelle decorā,
H.: cornibus altis frons, O.:
nomina, Ta.—
In pretence, for show, pretended, plausible, specious
: reversionis causae: speciosum Graeciae liberandae tulisse
titulum, L.: vocabula rerum,
H.: specioso eripe damno,
from this splendid misery
, O.: dictu speciosa, L.