hebetium

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Latin

Adjective

hebetium

  1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of hebes
    • 1587, Hieronymus Wolf, Isokratous hapanta. Isocratis scripta, quae quidem nunc extant, omnia, Graecolatina, postremò recognita: Hieronymo VVolfio Oetingensi interprete., page 551:
      Postremò iterũ more suo de senectute morboq́; suo dicit, quo interim, dum haec commentaretur, laborarit: eruditos lectores et censores requirit, hebetium et segnium ingeniorum in iudicando stulticiam atque temeritatem infectatur.
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