verus (true; also, of writings, tot enim sunt veri Bruti libri, Cic., Or., 2, 55, 224): probus (e.g., argentum probum, Liv.): germanus: verus et germanus (e.g., verum et germanum Metellum, Cic.; haec germana est ironia, Cic.): bonus (good; boni numi, Cic.): sincerus (unadulterated; of wine, etc.): merus (unmixed; of fluids): putus (of metals; pure; purus et putus is mostly ante-classical, Plaut., etc.): ☞ genuinus is “home-born” = domesticus, in Cic., Rep. 2, 15; but was applied to writings by Gell.: a genuine edition, *sincera editio: genuine virtue, vera virtus: a genuine Stoic, verus et sincerus Stoicus. For “think not to be genuine,” etc., Vid: “doubt its GENUINENESS.”