argumentum

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

argūmentum ī, n

arguo, an argument, evidence, ground, support, proof : Sthenium sine argumento damnare: ad huius innocentiam: fabella sine argumento, unsupported story : argumento sit clades, L.: libertatis, Ta.: argumenti sumebant loco, non posse, etc., accepted as a proof , Cs.— A sign, mark, token, evidence : argumenta atque indicia sceleris: animi laeti argumenta, indications , O.: non sine argumento male dicere, i. e. plausible ground . — Of a composition, the matter, contents, subject, theme, burden, argument : fabulae, T.: argumentum narrare, T.: argumento fabulam serere, upon a theme , i. e. a plot , L.: ex ebore perfecta argumenta, subjects modelled : (cratera) longo caelaverat argumento, O.: ingens, V.

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