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.
