(adjective) : cŭpĭdus, a, um, cupio
* Longing, desiring, desirous, eager, in a good and bad sense, wishing, loving, fond, etc. (very freq. and class.); constr. with gen., abl., inf., in, or absol.
* In a good sense.
* Of persons.
* In a bad sense, passionately desiring or longing for, eager, greedy, lustful, passionate.
* With inf.: attingere,Prop. 1, 19, 9: moriri,Ov. M. 14, 215.—*
* Of things: equorum Vis cupida,Lucr. 2, 265.
* Absol.: si quicquam cupido optantique obtigit,Cat. 107, 1: cupidum vires Deficiunt,Hor. S. 2, 1, 12.
* In gen.
* Of persons.
* In partic.
* Of things: cor,Lucr. 4, 1138; Prop. 1, 8, 29; Hor. C. 3, 14, 26 al.
* Longing from love, pining, languishing for, loving.
* Of persons: neu me cupidum eo (sc. ad uxorem ducendam) impulisset,Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 6: maritus,Cat. 64, 375; Tib. 1, 8, 74; Ov. M. 4, 679: cupidi nomen amantis habe,id. H. 3, 26.
* Desirous of money, avaricious, covetous, Quint. 11, 1, 88: multitudo cupidorum hominum,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 22, 64: homo castus ac non cupidus,id. Sest. 43, 93; Vitr. 1, 1, 7; so in sup., Suet. Vesp. 16.
* Devoted to a party, favoring any one, partial: quaestores vehementer (Verris),Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 4, § 12: cupidi et irati et conjurati testes,id. Font. 10, 21 (6, 11): judices (with infesti, invidentes),Tac. Or. 31; cf. comp.: judex,Cic. Caecin. 3, 8; and auctor,id. Clu. 24, 66.—Hence, cŭ-pĭdē, adv., eagerly, in a good and bad sense, zealously, passionately, vehemently, ardently, warmly, partially, etc. (freq. and class.), Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 11; Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 1; Cic. Att. 6, 3, 3; id. Rosc. Am. 18, 50; id. Phil. 2, 21, 52; Nep. Arist. 1, 4; Quint. 1, 3, 13; Cat. 63, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 100 et saep.—Comp., Caes. B. G. 1, 15; 5, 15; Liv. 3, 32, 3 al.— Sup., Caes. B. G. 1, 40; id. B. C. 2, 20; Sall. C. 40, 4 al.

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