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vernilis

vernilis · adj

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

vernīlis — Lewis & Short

vernīlis, e, adj.verna,

I of or belonging to a home-born slave (verna), slavish, i. e.,

I Mean, fawning, servile: blanditiae, Tac. H. 2, 59: corpora, Quint. Decl. 9, 12.— *

II Jesting, pert, waggish: dictum, Tac. H. 3, 32 fin.—Adv.: vernīlĭter, slavishly, servilely: fungi officiis, Hor. S. 2, 6, 108: nimis hoc fit verniliter, i. e. with fawning flattery, cringingly, Caecil. ap. Non. 42, 27: haec ipsa non verniliter, nec eā figurā, quā, etc., jestingly, jokingly, Sen. Ben. 2, 11, 3.

In the wild

verniliter Seneca, De Beneficiis 2.11.3
verniliter Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.6.108
vernile Tacitus, Historiae 3.32
vernilibus Tacitus, Historiae 2.63

Where it came from

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