Hobbius

Latin

Proper noun

Hobbius m sg (genitive Hobbiī); second declension

1. (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 […]

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Hobbius
genitive	Hobbiī
dative	Hobbiō
accusative	Hobbium
ablative	Hobbiō
vocative	Hobbī