praecellens
πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει → many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man | wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man | many things are bad, but nothing is more atrocious than man
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
prae-cellens: entis, Part. and P. a., from praecello.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
præcellēns,¹⁴ tis, p.-adj., de præcello, éminent, qui excelle, distingué, rare, extraordinaire : Cic. Balbo 25 || -tior Plin. 12, 24 ; -tissimus Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 97.
Latin > German (Georges)
praecellēns, entis, PAdi. (v. praecello), hervorragend = ausgezeichnet, vortrefflich, vorzüglich, vir et animo et virtute praecellens, Cic.: praecellens ingenio vir, hochbegabter, Vell.: ille Scipio, vir omnibus rebus praecellentissimus, Cic. Verr. 4, 97: Vergilius praecellentissimus vates, Plin. 14, 7: hunc (deum) esse rerum omnium praecellentissimum, Boëth. cons. phil. 3, 10. p. 73, 47 Peiper. – v. Lebl., uniones magnitudine praecellentes, Plin.: C. Caesar, vir ingenii praecellentis, hochbegabter, Gell.: maior alia (ficus), pomo et suavitate praecellentior, Plin. 12, 24: est aliud alio praecellentius, Augustin. de genes. ad litt. 12, 24, 51.
