sagacious Copy link Outline 1. prūdens (sensible)2. ăcūtus (keen, shrewd)3. săgax (strictly, sharp-scented, as a hound)4. perspĭcax (keen-sighted, penetrating) • sagacious: 1. prūdens (sensible): no brute more s. than the elephant, beluarum nulla prudentior, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 97: s. in criticism, in existimando p., id. Br. 68, 239. Join: [vir natura] peracutus et prudens, id. Or. 5, 18. 2. ăcūtus (keen, shrewd): cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 39, homo ingenio prudentiaque acutissimus. Strengthened, peracutus: v. supr. (1). 3. săgax (strictly, sharp-scented, as a hound): most s. (sharp-scented) in suspecting, sagacissimus ad suspicandum, Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 19: extremely s. in drawing inferences, in conjecturis sagacissimus, Just. 1, 9, med. Join: [animal, sc. homo] providum, sagax, ... acutum ... plenum rationis et consilii, Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22. See also, shrewd, prudent. 4. perspĭcax (keen-sighted, penetrating): Cic.: Ter. Phr.: an elephant less s. (than the rest), elephantus tardioris ingenii, Plin. 8, 3, 3.