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melancholicus

melancholicus · adj

having black bile, atrabilious, melancholy

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Where it lives

De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Naturalis Historia 14 · 0.35/10k

What it meant

mĕlanchŏlĭcus — Lewis & Short

mĕlanchŏlĭcus, a, um, adj., = melagxoliko/s,

I having black bile, atrabilious, melancholy: Aristoteles quidem ait, omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse, Cic. Tusc. 1, 33, 80; cf. id. Div. 1, 37, 81: insania, Plin. 22, 25, 64, § 133: vertigines, id. 27, 12, 105, § 130.

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