libidinosus

lĭbīdĭnōsus ( lŭbīd- ), a, um, adj. [libido], full of desire, passion, or lust, selfwilled, licentious, sensual, lustful, voluptuous, libidinous.

I.

Lit. (in a bad sense), Cic. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. 491, 16 (Rep. 2, 41, 68 Mos.):

homo libidinosissimus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192:

nihil (isto) luxuriosius, nihil libidinosius,

id. Pis. 27, 66:

libidinosior es quam ullus spado,

Quint. 6, 3, 64:

caper,

lecherous, Hor. Epod. 10, 23.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: libidinosissimae liberationes, arbitrary, self-willed, Cic. Pis. 36, 87:

libidinosae voluptates,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 59:

libidinosa et intemperans adulescentia,

id. de Sen. 9, 29:

fortuna varia et libidinosa,

Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 10:

pretia,

extravagant, Col. 10 praef. §

2: libidinosam liberalitatem debiti nomine colorare,

Val. Max. 8, 2, 2. —Of speech, licentious, wanton:

eloquentia,

Quint. 5, 12, 20.—

II.

In a good sense, eager, longing for a thing (post-class.):

libidinosus eloquentiae et gloriae,

Tert. Apol. 48; id. Virg. Vel. 13:

suae sapientiae,

id. Res. Carn. 32.—Hence, adv.: lĭbīdĭ-nōsē, according to one's pleasure or caprice, wilfully, wantonly:

quae ille libidinose, quae nefarie, quae crudeliter fecerit,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12, 38:

ne quid libidinose aut facias aut cogites,

id. Off. 1, 4, 14; id. Rep. 2, 37, 63:

libidinose crudeliterque consulere in aliquem,

Liv. 3, 63.— Comp.:

libidinosius saevire,

Tert. Monog. 16 fin.