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senilis

senilis · adj

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Where it lives

Fragmenta 1 · 74.07/10k
De Senectute 5 · 6.05/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Oedipus 2 · 3.37/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sĕnīlis — Lewis & Short

sĕnīlis, e, adj.senex,

I of or belonging to old people, aged, senile (freq. and class.): Tages puerili specie dicitur visus, sed senili fuisse prudentiā, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50; cf. partes (opp. viriles), Hor. A. P. 176: senile aliquid (opp. adulescentis aliquid), Cic. Sen. 11, 38: corpus, id. Sest. 22, 50: artus, Ov. M. 7, 250: vultus, id. ib. 8, 528: genae, id. ib. 8, 210: guttur, Hor. Epod. 3, 2: ruga, Ov. F. 5, 58: statua incurva, of an old man, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 87: anni, Ov. M. 7, 163; 13, 66; and poet.: hiems (as the last, latest season of the year), id. ib. 15, 212: animus, Liv. 10, 22: stultitia, Cic. Sen. 11, 36: auctoritas morum, Quint. 11, 1, 32: artes, Tac. A. 3, 8: adoptio, id. ib. 1, 7 fin.: senile illud facinus, that wicked old woman, App. M. 4, p. 148, 9.—* Adv.: sĕnīlĭter, after the manner of an old person: tremere, Quint. 1, 11, 1.

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