Gracilis, & hoc gráctle. penult. cor. Terent.Leane: stender: thinne: small: preatie.Arcus graciles.Ouid.Arundo gracilis. Sen. Long and small.Capellæ graciles.Ouid.Leane goates.Corpus gracile.Ouid.Gracilis lapis. Plin. iuo. A small stone.Gracilis liber. Martialis. A thinne booke that hath not muche paper.Gracile marmor.Plin. iun.Gracili nucleo glans. Plin. With a small kernell.Graciles vindemiæ.Plin. iun.Small grapes.Vmbra gracilis Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
grăcĭlis, e (also ante-class. grăcĭlus, a, um, Lucil. ap. Non. 489, 21; plur.: gracilae virgines, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 22), adj. [Sanscr. karc, to be lean; old Lat. cracentes, slender (Enn. Ann. 497 Vahl.); cf. Gr. koloka/nos], thin, slight, slender, slim; meagre, lean (poet. and in Aug. prose; not in Cic.; but cf. gracilitas; syn.: exilis, tenuis, macer). I. Physically: in gracili macies crimen habere potest, Ov. R. Am. 328: gracili sic tamque pusillo, Hor. S. 1, 5, 69: quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa, etc., id. C. 1, 5, 1: puer, Mart. 11, 43, 4: Indi, Juv. 6, 466: capella, Ov. M. 1, 299: equi hominesque paululi et graciles, Liv. 35, 11, 7: arbores succinctioresque, Plin. 16, 10, 17, 39: resina (opp. pinguis), id. 24, 6, 22, 33: gracilis et ejuncida vitis, id. 17, 22, 35, 173: folium, id. 19, 8, 54, 171: comae et lanuginis instar, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 23: stamen, id. M. 6, 54: catena, id. ib. 4, 176; cf.: vinculum auri, Petr. 126: cacumen, Ov. M. 10, 140: coronae, Juv. 12, 87: viae petauri, Mart. 2, 86, 7; cf. rima, App. M. 4, p. 149: libellus, Mart. 8, 24, 1: umbra, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 86: spuma, Vulg. Sap. 5, 15.— Comp.: glans brevior et gracilior, Plin. 16, 6, 8, 19.—Sup.: fuit (Nero) ventre projecto, gracillimis cruribus, Suet. Ner. 51.— B.Transf., opp. to fat or rich, meagre, scanty, poor (post-Aug.): ager, Plin. 17, 22, 35, 187: clivi, Col. 2, 4, 11: vindemiae, Plin. Ep. 9, 20, 2; 8, 15, 1: gracili Lare vivere, App. Mag. p. 287; cf. pauperies, id. M. 9, p. 219.—II.Trop., of style, simple, plain, unadorned (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): materiae gracili sufficit ingenium. Ov. P. 2, 5, 26; cf.: lusimus, Octavi, gracili modulante Thalia, Verg. Cul. 1: et in carmine et in soluta oratione genera dicendi probabilia sunt tria, quae Graeci xarakth=ras vocant nominaque eis fecerunt a(dro/n, i)sxno/n, me/son. Nos quoque, quem primum posuimus, uberem vocamus, secundum gracilem, tertium mediocrem. Uberi dignitas atque amplitudo est: gracili venustas et subtilitas: medius in confinio est utriusque modi particeps, etc., Gell. 7, 14, 1 sq.; cf.: inter gracile validumque tertium aliquid constitutum est, Quint. 12, 10, 66: praefationes tersae, graciles, dulces, Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 1.—Of the speaker: non possumus esse tam graciles, simus fortiores, Quint. 12, 10, 36.—Hence, adv.: grăcĭlĭter, slenderly.1.Lit., App. M. 3, p. 130.—2.Trop.: alia ornatius, alia gracilius esse dicenda,
