bestia

Bestia, the name of a family in ancient Rome, of which the following were the most distinguished. 1. Lucius Calpurnius Bestia, tribune of the people in 121 B.C., consul in 111. Having been appointed to the command of the operations against Jugurtha, he at first carried on the campaign energetically, but soon, having been heavily bribed, concluded a disgraceful peace. On his return to Rome he was brought to trial for his conduct and condemned, in spite of the efforts of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus who, though formerly his legate and equally guilty, was one of the judges.
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n. beast, animal

adj. beastlike, like a beast, resembling a beast, like an animal

n. beast, animal; brute; sod; idiot, simpleton

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beast| animal| creature; wild beast/animal| beast of prey in arena

= beast, brute, behemoth, behemoth.
Nota: Criatura mitológica.
Ex: In Little Gidding T.S. Eliot gives us some lines that express what I mean not just by saying it but by demonstrating it too: Last season's fruit is eaten And the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail.
Ex: It is often held that brute animals cannot have legal rights.
Ex: And we have the slumbering behemoth: the vast quantity of researchers who don't understand the system and don't care.
Ex: And we have the slumbering behemoth: the vast quantity of researchers who don't understand the system and don't care.
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* bestia negra = bête noire.
* bestia salvaje = wild beast.
* La Bella y la Bestia = Beauty and the Beast.