ăd-ămo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [ad, intens.],
- I. to love truly, earnestly, deeply (in the whole class. per. mostly—in Cic. always— used only in the perf. and pluperf.; first in Col. 10, 199, and Quint. 2, 5, 22, in the pres.): nihil erat cujusquam, quod quidem ille adamāsset, quod non hoc anno suum fore putaret, Cic. Mil. 32, 87; cf. id. Verr. 2, 2, 34; 2, 4, 45: sententiam, id. Ac. 2, 3, 9: Antisthenes patientiam et duritiam in Socratico sermone maxime adamārat, id. de Or. 3, 17, 62; cf. ib. 19, 71: laudum gloriam, id. Fam. 2, 4 fin.; cf. id. Flacc. 11: quem (Platonem) Dion admiratus est atque adamavit, Nep. Dion, 2, 3: agros et cultus et copias Gallorum, Caes. B. G. 1, 31: Achilleos equos, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 28: villas, Plin. Ep. 3, 7: si virtutem adamaveris, amare enim parum est (amare, as the merely instinctive love of goodness, in contrast with the acquired love of the philosophers, Doederl.), Sen. Ep. 71, 5.
- II. Of unlawful love, Ov. A. A. 2, 109; Suet. Vesp. 22: Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 155; id. 36, 5, 4, § 23; Petr. S. 110 al.