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superbus adj.

with comp. and sup, haughty, proud, vain, arrogant, insolent, discourteous, supercilious, domineering: iuvenis, V.: superbum se praebuit in fortunā: utrum superbiorem te pecunia facit?: Laudato pavone superbior, O.: homines superbissimi, S.: non respondere vereor, ne superbum sit, L.: superbum est dicere, etc.: atque meo nunc Superbus incedis malo, H.: opibus superbi, V.: iura, L.: lex superbissima, L.—Expressive of pride, proud, lofty, arrogant: mutatio vestis, L.: aures quarum est iudicium superbissimum, i. e. very severe: responsa, arrogant: oculi, O.: Karthaginis arces, H.—Fastidious, squeamish, delicate: dens, H.: corpus, H.—Proud, august, splendid, magnificent, superb: populus bello, V.: triumphus, H.: Postes, H.: sedes Dolopum, V.

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