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umbratilis

umbratilis · adj

remaining in the shade

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Where it lives

Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

umbrātĭlis — Lewis & Short

umbrātĭlis, e, adj.id.,

I remaining in the shade, in retirement, or at home; private, retired, contemplative.

I In gen.: vita umbratilis et delicata, a dreamy life, Cic. Tusc. 2, 11, 27: mora segnis et umbratilis, Col. 1, 2, 1: cum inerti et umbratili milite, Amm. 18, 6, 2.—

II In partic., of speech, in the manner of the schools (opp. to public, political): educenda deinde dictio est ex hac domesticā exercitatione et umbratili medium in agmen, in pulverem: in clamorem, in castra atque in aciem forensem, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 157: mollis est oratio philosophorum et umbratilis, id. Or. 19, 64.— Adv.: umbrātĭlĭter, in outline, slightly: effingimus, Sid. Ep. 2, 10.

In the wild

umbratilis Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes index.2.p484
umbratilem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.11.1
umbratili Cicero, De Oratore 1.157
umbratilem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.27.p1
umbratilis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.2.1
umbratile Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.16.21

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