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ambitiosus
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Lewis Short
(adj.adv.) : ambĭtĭōsus, a, um, adj.ambitio.
* (Very rare and mostly poet.) Going round, encompassing; poet., embracing, twining round: lascivis hederis ambitiosior,Hor. C. 1, 36, 20 (cf.: undique ambientibus ramis,Curt. 4, 7, 16).—Of a river, making circuits, having many windings: Jordanes amnis ambitiosus,Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71.— Of oratorical ornament, excessive, superfluous: vir bonus ambitiosa recidet Ornamenta,Hor. A. P. 447.
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* That asks for a thing fawningly; esp., that solicits the favor, good-will, etc., of any one, in a good and bad sense, honor-loving, ambitious, courting favor; vain, vainglorious, conceited, etc.: qui ita sit ambitiosus, ut omnes vos nosque cotidie persalutet,Cic. Fl. 18: homo minime ambitiosus, minime in rogando molestus,id. Fam. 13, 1: ne forte me in Graecos tam ambitiosum factum esse mirere,desirous of the favor of the Greeks,id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2: pro nostris ut sis ambitiosa malis, Ov P. 3, 1, 84: pro nato caerula mater Ambitiosa suo fuit,i.e. begs fawningly of Vulcan for weapons for her son,id. M. 13, 289: malis artibus ambitiosus,seeking to ingratiate one's self,Tac. H. 2, 57: salubris magis princeps quam ambitiosus,Suet. Aug. 42 al.
* Pass., that is willingly solicited or entreated, ambitious; much sought, honored, admired: ambitiosus et qui ambit et qui ambitur,Gell. 9, 12: turba caelestes ambitiosa sumus,Ov. F. 5, 298: sexus muliebris saevus, ambitiosus, potestatis avidus,Tac. A. 3, 33: si locuples hostis est, avari; si pauper, ambitiosi,id. Agr. 30: nota quidem sed non ambitiosa domus,not sought after,Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 18 Jahn: ambitiosae pulchritudinis scortum. Just. 30, 2.
* Of things, vain, ostentatious: amicitiae,founded merely on the desire to please, interested,Cic. Att. 1, 18: rogationes,id. Fam. 6, 12; so id. ib. 6, 6: gloriandi genus,Quint. 11, 1, 22: preces,urgent,Tac. H. 2, 49: sententiae,Suet. Dom. 8: mors, ambitious, i. e. to obtain fame, Tac. Agr. 42: medicina ars,boastful,Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 20: et quaesitorum pelago terrāque ciborum Ambitiosa fames,Luc. 4, 376: atria,splendid, gorgeous,Mart. 12, 69: ambitiosis utilia praeferre,Quint. 1, 2, 27: ambitiosius id existimans quam domi suae majestas postularet,more condescending, submissive,Suet. Aug. 25.
* In rhet.: orator ambitiosus, who seeks to rouse attention by obsolete or unusual expressions: antigerio nemo nisi ambitiosus utetur,Quint. 8, 3, 26.—Hence, adv.: ambĭtĭōsē, ambitiously, ostentatiously, etc.: de triumpho ambitiose agere,Cic. Att. 15, 1: ambitiose regnum petere,Liv. 1, 35: amicitias ambitiose colere, Tac. H. 1, 10 al.—Comp., Cic. Fam. 3, 7.—Sup., Quint. 6, 3, 68.
* (Very rare and mostly poet.) Going round, encompassing; poet., embracing, twining round: lascivis hederis ambitiosior,Hor. C. 1, 36, 20 (cf.: undique ambientibus ramis,Curt. 4, 7, 16).—Of a river, making circuits, having many windings: Jordanes amnis ambitiosus,Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71.— Of oratorical ornament, excessive, superfluous: vir bonus ambitiosa recidet Ornamenta,Hor. A. P. 447.
* Transf.
* That asks for a thing fawningly; esp., that solicits the favor, good-will, etc., of any one, in a good and bad sense, honor-loving, ambitious, courting favor; vain, vainglorious, conceited, etc.: qui ita sit ambitiosus, ut omnes vos nosque cotidie persalutet,Cic. Fl. 18: homo minime ambitiosus, minime in rogando molestus,id. Fam. 13, 1: ne forte me in Graecos tam ambitiosum factum esse mirere,desirous of the favor of the Greeks,id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2: pro nostris ut sis ambitiosa malis, Ov P. 3, 1, 84: pro nato caerula mater Ambitiosa suo fuit,i.e. begs fawningly of Vulcan for weapons for her son,id. M. 13, 289: malis artibus ambitiosus,seeking to ingratiate one's self,Tac. H. 2, 57: salubris magis princeps quam ambitiosus,Suet. Aug. 42 al.
* Pass., that is willingly solicited or entreated, ambitious; much sought, honored, admired: ambitiosus et qui ambit et qui ambitur,Gell. 9, 12: turba caelestes ambitiosa sumus,Ov. F. 5, 298: sexus muliebris saevus, ambitiosus, potestatis avidus,Tac. A. 3, 33: si locuples hostis est, avari; si pauper, ambitiosi,id. Agr. 30: nota quidem sed non ambitiosa domus,not sought after,Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 18 Jahn: ambitiosae pulchritudinis scortum. Just. 30, 2.
* Of things, vain, ostentatious: amicitiae,founded merely on the desire to please, interested,Cic. Att. 1, 18: rogationes,id. Fam. 6, 12; so id. ib. 6, 6: gloriandi genus,Quint. 11, 1, 22: preces,urgent,Tac. H. 2, 49: sententiae,Suet. Dom. 8: mors, ambitious, i. e. to obtain fame, Tac. Agr. 42: medicina ars,boastful,Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 20: et quaesitorum pelago terrāque ciborum Ambitiosa fames,Luc. 4, 376: atria,splendid, gorgeous,Mart. 12, 69: ambitiosis utilia praeferre,Quint. 1, 2, 27: ambitiosius id existimans quam domi suae majestas postularet,more condescending, submissive,Suet. Aug. 25.
* In rhet.: orator ambitiosus, who seeks to rouse attention by obsolete or unusual expressions: antigerio nemo nisi ambitiosus utetur,Quint. 8, 3, 26.—Hence, adv.: ambĭtĭōsē, ambitiously, ostentatiously, etc.: de triumpho ambitiose agere,Cic. Att. 15, 1: ambitiose regnum petere,Liv. 1, 35: amicitias ambitiose colere, Tac. H. 1, 10 al.—Comp., Cic. Fam. 3, 7.—Sup., Quint. 6, 3, 68.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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