Hobbius
Latin
Proper noun
Hobbius m sg (genitive Hobbiī); second declension
- (New Latin) Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher
- 1674, Friedrich Gesen, Domini Samuelis Pufendorfii […] contra jus naturae iniquitas inque illius scrutinio infelicitas […], page 57:
- […] videbit quam primo statim dogmate p 3, seqq. in Hobbio hoc opinionis monstrum; nihil ex se & simpliciter malum Bonumve esse, tam feliciter prostraverit.
- […] he shall see, forthwith and before all else, on p. 3 sqq. how fortunately he has, by means of doctrine, overthrown this monstrosity of an opinion in Hobbes, that nothing is simply and in itself bad or good.
- 1683, Richard Cumberland, De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophica […], page 54:
- Hobbio autem indecorum erat maximè hac in re, vel hoc in loco labi: cùm quia status civilis peculiare privilegium, cuilibet in statu naturali tribuere turpe fuit, etiam tum cùm statuum hujusmodi discrimina accuratissimè tradere præ se fert; […]
- But it was especially shameful for Hobbes to err in this matter, or in this place; for it is disgraceful for him to accord to anyone in the state of nature a peculiar privilege of civil society precisely where he pretends to discuss with the greatest accuracy the differences between these states […]
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Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Hobbius |
| Genitive | Hobbiī |
| Dative | Hobbiō |
| Accusative | Hobbium |
| Ablative | Hobbiō |
| Vocative | Hobbī |