speciosus

speciōsus adj.

species, good-looking, showy, handsome, beautiful, splendid, brilliant : familia gladiatoria: alqs pelle decorā, H.: cornibus altis frons, O.: nomina, Ta.— In pretence, for show, pretended, plausible, specious : reversionis causae: speciosum Graeciae liberandae tulisse titulum, L.: vocabula rerum, H.: specioso eripe damno, from this splendid misery , O.: dictu speciosa, L.