tenebricosus
καλῶς δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ νικᾶν κακῶς → I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by evil | I prefer to fail by acting rightly rather than win by acting wrongly | Better fail by doing right, than win by doing wrong (Sophocles, Philoctetes 95)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
tĕnē̆brĭcōsus: a, um, adj. tenebricus,
I full of darkness or gloom, shrouded in darkness, dark, gloomy (rare but class.): esse sensus non obscuros sed tenebricosos, Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 73: popina, id. Pis. 8, 18: libidines, id. Prov. Cons. 4, 8: tenebricosissimum tempus, id. Vatin. 5, 11: iter, Cat. 3, 11: locus angustus et tenebricosus, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 19.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
tĕnĕbrĭcōsus,¹³ a, um (tenebricus), ténébreux, enveloppé d’obscurité, de ténèbres : Cic. Ac. 2, 73 ; Varro R. 3, 9, 19 || -cosissimus Cic. Vat. 11.
Latin > German (Georges)
tenebricōsus, a, um (v. tenebricus, wie bellicosus v. bellicus), voll Finsternis, in Dunkel gehüllt, a) übh., bes. bildl. u. gew. von Dingen, über die man aus Schamgefühl oder Schonung den Schleier des Geheimnisses zieht, locus, Varro: popina, Cic.: domus, Sen.: libidines, Cic.: illud tenebricosissimum tempus ineuntis aetatis tuae, Cic. – b) umnachtet, umdüstert, umnebelt (als Steigerung von obscurus, unklar), sensus, Cic. Acad. 2, 73: Heraclitus ille t. = σκοτεινός, unverständlich, Tert. adv. Marc. 2. 28.
Latin > English
tenebricosus tenebricosa, tenebricosum ADJ :: dark
