languĭdus — Lewis & Short
languĭdus, a, um, adj.langueo,
I faint, weak, dull, sluggish, languid (class.; cf.: lassus, fessus, fatigatus, defessus).
I Lit.
A In gen.:
homines vino languidi,Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; cf.:
vino vigiliisque languidus,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 12, § 31:
pecus,id. Fin. 2, 13, 39:
boves Collo trahentes languido,Hor. Epod. 2, 64.—Transf., of things:
(oculi) languidi et torpentes,dull, Quint. 11, 3, 76; cf.:
vultus non languidus,id. 11, 3, 159:
flumen,sluggish, Hor. C. 2, 14, 17; so,
aqua,Liv. 1, 4:
ventus,gentle, mild; Ov. P. 2, 1, 2; cf.
carbasa,hanging loose, not swelled out, Luc. 5, 421:
color,pale, Plin. 12, 12, 26, § 43:
ignis,id. 34, 8, 17, § 79:
ictus venarum,id. 11, 37, 88, § 219:
arbor piri,Pall. Febr. 25, 4; id. Novem. 7, 14.—Comp.:
languidioribus nostris vallum scindere (hostes),Caes. B. G. 3, 5:
folia languidiora,Plin. 22, 20, 24, § 50:
vina,i. e. more mellow, Hor. C. 3, 21, 8.—
B In partic., faint, weak, languid from sickness, languishing, ill (poet. and in postAug. prose): lumina, Laurea Tullius poët. ap. Plin. 31, 2, 3, § 8:
languidior noster si quando est Paulus,Mart. 9, 86:
uxor,Juv. 1, 122.—Subst.: languĭdus, i, m., the sick man, invalid, Vulg. Johan. 5, 7; id. Matt. 14, 14 al.—
II Trop., faint, feeble, powerless, inactive, listless, of persons and things:
senectus languida atque iners,Cic. de Sen. 8, 26:
philosophus mollis, languidus, enervatus,id. de Or. 1, 52, 226:
si qui antea aut alieniores fuerant aut languidiores,more sluggish, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, § 16; cf.:
nos etiam languidiores postea facti sumus,id. Phil. 8, 7, 21:
illi beati, quos nullae futtiles laetitiae exultantes languidis liquefaciunt voluptatibus,id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; Caes. B. G. 3, 5:
esse remisso ac languido animo,id. B. C. 1, 21:
languidiore credo studio in causa fuistis,Cic. Lig. 9, 28:
oratio languidior,Quint. 4, 1, 67:
auctoritas patrum,weak, Plin. 15, 29, 36, § 121:
Romani ... fessi lassique erant: tamen instructi intentique obviam procedebant. Nam dolus Numidarum nihil languidi neque remissi patiebatur,Sall. J. 53, 6:
oculos ubi languida pressit quies,producing languor, Verg. A. 12, 908.—Sup. seems not to occur. —Hence, adv.: languĭdē, in a languid manner, faintly, feebly, slowly, languidly (class.):
procedere,Col. 11, 1, 17:
nutare,Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 53:
agere,Petr. 98:
palmae languide dulces,slightly, Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 34. —Comp.:
languidius in opere versari,Caes. B. G. 7, 27:
dictum languidius,more faintheartedly, spiritlessly, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 25.— Sup. seems not to occur.