more (adv.) Copy link Outline I. In higher degree1. măgis (not necessarily implying the applicability of the predicate, in the case with which comparison is made, in any degree at all)2. plus (denoting comparison of the degree to which anything exists or may be predicated)II. In addition1. amplius2. ultrā3. 487. 3. suprā (poet.) • more (adv.): I. In higher degree: (i.) before adjj. or advv., expr. by compar. degree, or in the case of adjj. in -ius by magis: see the several adjj. M. or less ..., magis minusve (with posit. adj.), Quint. 11, 1, 27. (ii.) before other parts of speech: 1. măgis (not necessarily implying the applicability of the predicate, in the case with which comparison is made, in any degree at all): they had conquered m. by skill, and strategy than valour, m. ratione et consilio quam virtute vicisse, Caes. B. G. 1, 40, med.: cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 15, magis facilitate quam alia culpa mea: v. rather. Note specially the phrr. magis et (ac) magis, magis magisque, more and more (denoting continual increase): non magis quam, no more than (often = just as little as): I think of Greece m. and m. every day, de Graecia quotidie m. et m. cogito, Cic. Att. 14, 18, fin.. so, quotidie magis magisque minari, id. Phil. 1, 2, 5: Caius would no m. become emperor, than ..., non m. Caium imperaturum, quam ..., Suet. Cal. 19, extr.: Cic. 2. plus (denoting comparison of the degree to which anything exists or may be predicated): whether letter or spirit should weigh m., verbane plus an sententia valere debeat, Cic. Top. 25, 96: I love Pompey m. and m. every day, Pompeium plus plusque in dies diligo, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 6. Also, in comparison by means of numeral advv.: not m. than once, non plus quam semel, Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61: or without quam, more than a thousand times, plus millies, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 32. II. In addition: 1. amplius: (this) he claims back, nothing m., (hoc) repetit, nihil a., Cic. Verr. 5, 49, init.: Ov. 2. ultrā: not to look for anything m., nil ultra requirere, Cic. Tim. 3. Also ulterius (poet.): he could bear it no m., non tulit ulterius, Ov. M. 3. 487. 3. suprā (poet.): I ask the gods for nothing m., nihil s. deos lacesso, Hor. Od. 2, 18, 11.