adverb
dulce
dulce (comparative dulcius, superlative dulcissimē, adjective dulcis)
Classical[ˈdʊɫ.kɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈdul̠ʲ.t͡ʃe]
Meaning
- synonym of dulciter: sweetly, agreeably, delightfully
Ille mi par esse deo videtur, / ille, si fas est, superare divos, / qui sedens adversus identidem te / spectat et audit // dulce ridentem, misero quod omnes / eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te, / Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi / // lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus / flamma demanat, sonitu suopte / tintinant aures, gemina teguntur / lumina nocte.
He seems to me to be equal to a god, / he, if it is permissible, / seems to surpass the gods, / who sitting opposite again and again / watches and hears you // sweetly laughing, which rips out all senses / from miserable me: for at the same moment I look upon you, / Lesbia, nothing is left for me / // But my tongue grows / thick, a thin flame / runs down beneath my limbs, with their own sound / my ears ring, my lights (eyes) / are covered by twin night.c. 70 BCE, Gaius Valerius Catullus, Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829 Carmina 51tanta mentis perturbatione sedata, dulce conquievit.
with so great a disturbance of mind having been calmed, she rested pleasantly.c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.1
dulce, adv.,
I. sweetly, pleasantly, v. dulcis, fin.
(b). .
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dulce adv. with comp. and sup.
dulcis, agreeably, charmingly, delightfully : ridens, H., Ct.: dulcius canere, Pr.: historia scripta dulcissume.