inviolabilis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-vĭŏlābĭlis, e, adj.,

I invulnerable , imperishable (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): inviolabile telis servabant sacrumque caput, Sil. 16, 16: inviolabilia haec ne credas forte vigere, Lucr. 5, 305: elementum, Ap. de Mund. 1, p. 57: quia non laniabatur (Mariccus), stolidum vulgus inviolabilem credebat, invulnerable , Tac. H. 2, 61.—

II Inviolable , hallowed : uti Dianae Leucophrynae perfugium inviolabile foret, Tac. A. 3, 62: lex, Cod. Th. 6, 4, 18: comitum concilium, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 242 al. — Adv.: invĭŏlābĭlĭter , inviolably , Cod. 2, 17, 1; Boeëth. Consol. 3 Pros. 10.

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