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n. - Self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins).

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  • Aegyptos, sed luxuria, quantum ipse notavi, barbara famoso non cedit turba Canopo. '
  • Incitabant praeterea corrupti civitatis mores, quos pessima ac diversa inter se mala, luxuria atque avaritia, vexabant.
  • Augustus's attempts to curb public aristocratic display were successful, but his programs to put an end to private luxuria failed utterly.
  • Viewed as luxuria, such conduct raised opposition expressed in the form of censorial reprimands, sumptuary laws (in 215, 181, 161, and 115), and numerous speeches.
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