(adjective) : ămābĭlis, e, amo
* 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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