potius

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Latin

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Adjective

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potius

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of potior

Adverb

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potius (not comparable)

  1. rather
  2. rather than (potius quam)
    ut potius in silvis Gallorum vita quam legionarius miles pericliteturin order that the life of Gauls might be hazarded in woods rather than a legionary soldier (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VI, 34)
  3. instead
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.99-100:
      “Quīn potius pācem aeternam pactōsque hymenaeōs / exercēmus?”
      [Juno says to Venus:] “Instead, why don’t we pursue an enduring peace, and arrange marriage [for Dido and Aeneas]?”
  4. perhaps

References

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  • 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)