adverb
persaepe
persaepe (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablevery often
At persaepe etiam prīvātī, in hāc rē pūblicā, perniciōsōs cīvēs morte multārunt.
But very often even private citizens, in this republic, have punished destructive citizens with death.63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.28 - not comparablevery frequently
per-saepe, adv.,
I. very often, very frequently:
quod persaepe fit, Cic. Lael. 20, 75: frons, oculi, voltus persaepe mentiuntur, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15: persaepe velut qui Junonis sacra ferret, Hor. S. 1, 3, 10; id. A. P. 349.—In tmesi: per pol saepe peccas, Plaut. Cas. 2, 6, 18.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
per-saepe adv.,
very often: quod persaepe fit, C., H.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per- Latin saepe Latin persaepe From per- + saepe.