potius
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) potius
Adverb
potius (not comparable)
- rather
- rather than (potius quam)
- ut potius in silvis Gallorum vita quam legionarius miles periclitetur ― in order that the life of Gauls might be hazarded in woods rather than a legionary soldier (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VI, 34)
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 15:
- ut potius acie decernerent, quam inclusi
- to settle the quarrel in the field of battle rather than to be shut up
- ut potius acie decernerent, quam inclusi
- instead
- perhaps
References
- “potius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “potius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- potius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- potius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) there is nothing I am more interested in than..: nihil antiquius or prius habeo quam ut (nihil mihi antiquius or potius est, quam ut)
- (ambiguous) there is nothing I am more interested in than..: nihil antiquius or prius habeo quam ut (nihil mihi antiquius or potius est, quam ut)