Agrestis, & hoc agreste. Virg.Wilde: growen without culture: also vngentle: rude: rusricall.Alumous agrestis. Sene. Brought vp or fostred in the countrey. Aper agrestis. Ouid.Agrestis arbor.Cic.A wilde tree: or growing in the field.Cultus agrestis.Stat.Rude: homely.Falx agrestis. Iuuenal. Ferramentum agreste.Liu.Frondes agresres. Horat. Gaza agrestis.Virg.Countrey riches.Laurus agrestis. Tibull. Lupi agrestes. Stat.Numen agreste.Senec. Nymphæ agrestes. Virg.Palæstra agrestis.Virg.A countrey game.Poma agreltia.Virg.Wildings.Pubes agrestis.Virg.The youth of the countrey.Agrestes tauri differunt syluestribus. Pli. Dxe for % plongh.Saltus agrestis.Ouid.Satyri agrestes. Horat. Stramen agreste. Virg.Sylua agrestis.Ouid.Tecta agrestia.Ouid.Homely houses or cottages of the countrey.Tineæ agrestes.Ouid. Agreste per metaphoram.Rude: homely: rusticall: carterlike: without nurture or ciuilitie: without gentlenes: fierce.Duriatque agrestes Lygures. Ci. Genowayes fierce and rude.Indoctus & agrestis.Cic. Agreste & inhumanum. Cic.Vastus & agrestis.Cic. Animus agrestis ac durus. Cic.Asperitas agresris. Horat. Dominus agrestis acfuriosus.Cic.Donum agreste, Sillius.Agrestis musa.Virg.Vplandish.Immanitas agrestis.Cic.Rude and fierce crueltie.Negligentia agrestis & inhumana.Cic.Pectus agreste.Ouid.A cruell hatt.Seruos agrestes & barbaros, &c.Cic.Fera agrestísque vita.Cic. Rustica vox & agrestis. Cic. Agrestis, Substantiuum, pro homine rustico.Virg.An vplandish man: one of the countrey.Duri agrestes.Virg. Frigidus agrestis. Ouid.Tardi agrestes.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
āgrestis, e, adj. [id.]. I.Lit., pertaining to land, fields, or the country, country, rural, rustic, wild, a)/grios: Musa, Lucr. 5, 1397: te in Arpinati videbimus et hospitio agresti accipiemus, Cic. Att. 2, 16 fin.: vestitus, Nep. Pel. 2, 5: falx, Tib. 2, 5, 28 al.: poma, Verg. A. 7, 111: cum lactucis agrestibus, Vulg. Exod. 12, 8: ligna non sunt pomifera, sed agrestia, ib. Deut. 20, 20: herbas agrestes, ib. 4 Reg. 4, 39.—Subst.: āgre-stis, is (gen. plur. agrestūm, Ov. M. 14, 635), a countryman, rustic, farmer, peasant, Lucr. 5, 1382: non est haec oratio habenda aut cum imperitā multitudine aut in aliquo conventu agrestium, Cic. Mur. 29: collectos armat agrestes, Verg. A. 9, 11: Fictilia antiquus primum sibi fecit agrestis Pocula, Tib. 1, 1, 39: facinus admissum a quodam agresti, Tac. A. 4, 45: inopes agrestes, id. H. 2, 13; 4, 50.—II.Transf., and in mal. part. A.Rustic, in opp. to the refined citizen (urbanus, as a)/grios is opp. to a)stei=os), boorish, clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, wild, savage, barbarous, of persons and things: sunt quidam vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes, Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115: O rem dignam, in quā non modo docti, verum etiam agrestes erubescant, id. Leg. 1, 14, 41: aborigines, genus hominum agreste, Sall. C. 6, 1: Ego ille agrestis, saevos, tristis, parcus, truculentus, tenax Duxi uxorem, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 12: quis nostrūm tam animo agresti ac duro fuit, ut, etc., Cic. Arch. 8: dominus agrestis et furiosus, id. Sen. 14: exculto animo nihil agreste, nihil inhumanum est, id. Att. 13, 45; so Ov. M. 11, 767: rustica vox et agrestis, Cic. de Or. 2, 11; 2, 3. —Hence, agrestiores Musae, ruder, of the language of the bar, in opp. to more refined and polished eloquence, Cic. Or. 3, 11.—B.Wild, brutish: vultus, Ov. M. 9, 96: agrestem detraxit ab ore figuram Juppiter (of Io), Prop. 3, 31, 13.—Comp., v. above.— Sup. agrestissimus, Cassiod. Ep. 7, 4.— Adv. comp. neutr. agrestius, Spart. Hadr. 3.