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|lshtext=<b>bĕnĕfĭcus</b>: ([[better]] [[than]] bĕnĭfĭcus), a, um, adj. [[bene]]-[[facio]] (<br /><b>I</b> comp. and [[sup]]. [[regularly]] formed, beneficentior, Sen. Ben. 1, 4, 5; 5, 9, 2: beneficentissimus, Cic. Lael. 14, 51; id. N. D. 2, 25, 64; [[ante]]-[[class]]. beneficissimus, [[Cato]] ap. Prisc. p. 603 P.), [[generous]], [[liberal]], [[beneficent]], [[obliging]], favorable ([[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].): de Ptolemaeo rege optimo et beneficissimo, [[Cato]], l. l.: beneficum esse oratione, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 14: ubi [[beneficus]], si [[nemo]] alterius causā [[benigne]] facit? Cic. Leg. 1, 18, 49: in amicum, id. Off. 1, 14, 42; 1, 14, 44: sunt [[enim]] benefici generique hominum amici, id. Div. 2, 49, 102: [[beneficus]], [[salutaris]], [[mansuetus]] [[civis]], id. Mil. 8, 20; id. Lael. 9, 31; cf. Gell. 17, 5, 4: [[actio]], Sen. Ben. 2, 34, 5.—* Adv.: bĕnĕfĭcē, [[beneficently]]: facere, Gell. 17, 5, 13.