saepius

Latin

Alternative forms

• sēpius (Medieval Latin)

Adverb

saepius (comparative)

1. comparative degree of saepe, more often, too often
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.11:

     Nōn est saepius in ūnō homine summā salūs perīclitanda reī pūblicae.

     The highest welfare of the state must not be risked too often on one man.

References

• “saepius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • more than once; repeatedly: semel atque iterum; iterum ac saepius; identidem; etiam atque etiam
    
  • he is encored several times: saepius revocatur (Liv. 7. 2. 9)