ambitio

ambitiō ōnis, f

ambio, a going about .— Esp., of candidates for office, the soliciting of votes (by lawful means): mea me ambitio cogitatione abstrahebat: tanta exarsit ambitio, ut, etc., L.: Quid de nostris ambitionibus loquer?— A striving for favor, courting, flattery, adulation : ambitione adducti: in Scipione ambitio maior, vita tristior: Platonem magnā ambitione perduxit, ostentatiously , N.: ambitione relegatā, without flattery , H.: ius sibi per ambitionem dictum, favoritism , L.— A desire for honor, thirst for popularity : ambitio honorumque contentio: mala, S.: miserā, H.: inanis, H.: funerum, pomp , Ta.