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ămābĭlis , e, adj. amo,
I.that deserves to be loved, worthy of love, lovely, amiable (class.): “nimis bella es atque amabilis,Plaut. As. 3, 3, 84; so id. Stich. 5, 4, 54: nec sine te (sc. Venere) fit laetum neque amabile quicquam, without thee nothing lovely is obtained, * Lucr. 1, 23: “filiolam tuam et amo et amabilem esse certo scio,Cic. Att. 5, 19: “se ipsum amabilem facit,Vulg. 2 Reg. 1, 23; ib. Prov. 18, 24: “amabilior mihi Velia fuit,Cic. Fam. 7, 20: “amabilissimum nodum amicitiae tollere,id. Lael. 14, 51: “amabilis insania,Hor. C. 3, 4, 5; so, “frigus,id. ib. 3, 13, 10: “chori,id. ib. 4, 3, 14: “seu condis amabile carmen,or dost build the lovely rhyme, id. Ep. 1, 3, 24: “vocavit ejus nomen Amabilis - Domino,” i. e. Jedidiah, Vulg. 2 Reg. 12, 25 al.—Adv.: ămābĭlĭter ; in act. signif., lovingly, amiably: “si amabiliter in me cogitare vis,Cic. Att. 14, 13: “spectet amabilius juvenem,Ov. A. A. 3, 675: “lusit,pleasantly, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 148; Petr. 112.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 7.20
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 14.13
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 5.19
    • Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 12.25
    • Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 1.23
    • Old Testament, Proverbs, 18.24
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 3.3
    • Plautus, Stichus, 5.4
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.23
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 14
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