malitiosus
οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
Latin > English
malitiosus malitiosa, malitiosum ADJ :: wicked; crafty, roguish, knavish
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mălĭtĭōsus: a, um, adj. malitia,
I full of wickedness, wicked, knavish, crafty, malicious.
I In gen. (class.): homo, Cic. Off. 3, 13, 57: malitiosissimus, Front. ad M. Caes. 4, 3.—Of things: juris interpretatio, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33.—
II As nom. prop.: Silva Malitiosa, a forest in the Sabine territory, Liv. 1, 30, 9; = ὕλη κακοῦργος, Dion. 3, 33. —Hence, adv.: mălĭtĭōsē, wickedly, knavishly, perfidiously: quicquam agi dolose, aut malitiose, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61: facere aliquid, id. Verr. 2, 2, 53, § 132.—Comp.: rem mandatam malitiosius gerere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
mălĭtĭōsus,¹³ a, um (malitia), méchant, trompeur, fourbe : Cic. Off. 3, 57 ; 1, 33 || -sior Aug. Mor. 2, 19, 67 ; -sissimus Fronto Ep. ad M. Cæs. 4, 3.
Latin > German (Georges)
malitiōsus, a, um (malitia), schelmisch, schurkisch, hinterlistig, arglistig, hämisch, homo, Cic.: iuris interpretatio, Cic. – Compar., quid verbis fallacius, quid insidiosius, quid malitiosius dici aut inveniri potest? Augustin. de mor. Manich. 19. – Superl., eos (aiunt) provenire malitiosissimos, qui etc., Fronto ad M. Caes. 4, 3. p. 62, 6 N.: quod malitiosissimum est, Augustin. de civ. dei 2, 29. p. 96, 24 D. – / silva Malitiosa (ἡ ὕλη καλουμένη κακοῦργος, Dion. Hal.), ein Wald im Sabinischen, Liv. 1, 30, 9.
