PLAINLY Copy link • PLAINLYClearly, clare: perspicue: evidenter: plane: lucide: dilucide: enodate: enucleate: expresse: to speak plainly, perspicue dicere: plane et aperte dicere: plane et dilucide loqui: distincte dicere (plainly and intelligibly); plane et articulate eloqui (so that every syllable is heard; Gell., 5, 9): to say a thing plainly and clearly, articulatim distincteque dicere aliquid (opposed to fuse disputare aliquid et libere, Cic., Legg., 1, 13, 36): to write plainly, plane, aperte, perspicue scribere: distincte ac distribute scribere (with distinctness and proper order or arrangement; with reference to the sense): litterate perscribere (with regard to the letters; Vid: Cic., Pis., 25, extr.): to write plainly to anybody, enucleate perscribere ad aliquem: to pronounce plainly, exprimere et explanare verba (Plin., Paneg., 64, 3): ☞ evidenter is used by Livy, and therefore correct; but there is no authority for evidenter videre; it should be plane, aperte, penitus, perspicue videre (Krebs): Obviously, undoubtedly, sine dubio (Cic.); procul dubio (Liv.); haud dubie (not sine ullo dubio): sine ulla dubitatione (without any hesitation): certe (certainly). This reading is plainly the right one, haec lectio haud dubie or sine dubio vera est: this reading is plainly preferable, haec lectio sine ulla dubitatione praeferenda est. Often by circumlocution with manifestum est. He is plainly a fool, manifestum est, eum esse stultum.