Dócilis, & hoc dócile, pe. cor. Cic.Lightly taught: easily instrueted.Praui docilis Romana iuuentus. Horat. Quickly taught that which is not good.Fallendi docilis. Sil. Easily taught to deceine.Saltaudi docilis. Clau. That wil quickly be taught to daÛce.Docilis ad rem aliquam.Easie to be taught.Docilis luscinia Græco & Latino setmone. Plin. The nightin gale may be taught to speake greeke and latine.Animi dociles. Hor. Os docile. Ouid.Præbere se docilem.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dŏcĭlis, e, adj. [doceo], easily taught, docile.I. Prop. (freq. and class.).—Absol.: belua docilis et humanis moribus assueta, Cic. Rep. 2, 40; id. de Or. 2, 19, 80; Liv. 23, 29; Quint. 2, 9, 3; Hor. C. 3, 11, 1; id. Carm. Sec. 45 et saep.; cf. in the comp., Quint. 1, 12, 9; 4, 2, 24.—With ad: ad agriculturam, Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 20, 3; id. Tusc. 2, 6; Curt. 8, 31, 16; in the comp., Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 56.—With abl.: habebant luscinias Graeco atque Latino sermone docilis, Plin. 10, 42, 59, 120: omnes imitandis turpibus, Juv. 14, 40.—Poet., with gen.: modorum, Hor. C. 4, 6, 43: pravi, id. S. 2, 2, 52: fallendi,
skilful
, Sil. 3, 233: freni (equus), id. 16, 360; and with inf.: cerva accedere mensis, id. 13, 120.—II.Transf. of things: capilli, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 13: os, id. ib. 3, 344: et bibula chrysocolla, Plin. 33, 5, 26, 88: hasta relegi et relinqui, Val. Fl. 6, 237: ingenium, Nep. Dion. 1, 2: pavor pascere rumorem, Sil. 4, 8 et saep.—Sup. does not occur.—Adv.: dŏcĭlĭter, with docility, teachably, acc. to Diom. p. 401 P.