LIBERAL Copy link • LIBERALBountiful, largus (that gives largely from his own property); largitor (the largus, with a selfish or unworthy end in view); liberalis (the largus, when he gives from good motives and with a noble end in view; opposed to prodigus, Vid: Cic., Off., 2, 16, 55); beneficus, benignus (the former, kind in deed; the latter, kind in disposition, but frequently for beneficus; ☞ Cic., Deiot., 9, 26); largus, beneficus, liberalis; munificus (that makes presents to others without reckoning on a return). (The words are found in this connection and order.) largus et liberalis; liberalis et munificus; liberalissimus munificentissimusque; beneficus liberalisque liberalissimus et beneficentissimus. Not liberal, restrictus (Cic., Off., 2, 18, 62; ad Div., 3, 8, 8): too liberal, prodigus, effusus, profusus (that knows not how to observe moderation in giving): to be liberal toward anyone, largum, liberalem, beneficum esse in aliquem: to be very liberal, magna esse liberalitate: liberal in money, liberalis pecuniae: to be liberal with anything, largam alicujus rei copiam concedere: to be liberal from another person’s property, largiri ex or de alieno: to be liberal in anything, sumtibus non parcere in re: in a liberal manner, large; liberaliter. (The words are found in this connection and order.) large liberaliterque benigne; munifice. (The words are found in this connection and order.) munifice et large: to be too liberal in praising anyone, *praeter modum aliquem laudare; *nimium esse in alicujus laudibus; tribuere alicui laudem immodicam (after Pseudo-Cic. ad Brut., 1, 15, med.): to be too liberal in decreeing honors, in decernendis honoribus nimium esse, et tamquam prodigum. Generous, ingenuous, ingenuus; liberalis: bonus. The liberal arts, etc., artes or doctrinae ingenuae, liberales, bonae. Plentiful, amplus; largus; benignus (Hor.).