Nonius Marcellus, Compendium of Doctrine, Vol. II (1888) - Page 15

Cruel Jupiter transferred all things to Argos.

The same, book IV:

And the ferox spirited [horse] chews the foaming bits.

Anticus ancient and antiquior older/preferable differ as much in degree as in meaning. For anticus signifies old. Virgil in Georgics, book II:

And the ancient homes of birds.

Antiquior [is] better. Varro, Human Affairs, book XX: Nor
do good citizens have anything more ancient [important] than the common safety. — Accius in Phoenissae:

Having arisen, armed from the serpent's stock, older in race.

Lucilius, book XIV:

Why not rather pass your life in quiet stillness,

Than you seem to have done this more antiquiu' importantly than to do it.

M. Tullius Cicero in On Friendship: This indeed is proper to friendship; but it is older and more beautiful and proceeds more from nature itself. — The same in On the Republic, book I: Thus, since the fatherland contains many benefits and is an older parent than he who created [one], a greater debt of gratitude is owed to it than to a parent. — M. Tullius Cicero to the younger Caesar, book III: I, however, [think he is] descended from the most ancient Scythians, to whom justice is more ancient than profit.