Angustam amice pauperiem pati robustus acri militia puer condiscat et Parthos ferocis vexet eques,' lines which also refer to the resuscitation by Augustus of the citizen-cavalry.
When Horace writes-- Ridiculum acri Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res, he means that men are more likely to be made better by the fear of contempt than of moral reprobation.
Any great man might be proud to receive such a tribute as (129)-- tu mitis et acri asperitate carens positoque per omnia fastu inter ut aequales unus numeraris amicos, obsequiumque doces et amorem quaeris amando.
On this river and somewhere above Acri stood, according to the scholarly researches of Lenormant, the ancient city of Pandosia.
It would never do to be laid up at Acri with heatstroke, and to have one's last drops of life drained away by copious blood-lettings, relic of Hispano-Arabic practices and the favourite remedy for every complaint.
Acri is a large place, and its air of prosperity contrasts with the slumberous decay of San Demetrio; there is silk-rearing, and so much emigration into America that nearly every man I addressed replied in English.
I reachedAcri after about two and a half hours' walking.
A driving road passes the Croce Greca; it joinsAcri with San Giovanni, the capital of Sila Grande, and with Cosenza.
Ridiculum acri / Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res=--Ridicule often settles matters of importance better and more effectually than severity.
Judicio acri perpendere=--To weigh with a keen judgment.
Because some Sort of Stories are the proper Subjects of Ridicule; and because, Ridiculum acri fortius & melius, Ridicule will cut the Pate of an Ecclesiastical Numbskull, which calm and sedate Reasoning will make no Impression on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acri" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
