Faint: sicke: afraid: idle: litther. Languidus viao, vigilijsq. Cic. Sicke with wine & watching. Aura languida. Ouid. A soft winde. Languida authoritas parrum facta est. Plin. The authoritie of the nobles decayed and became of litle estimation. Laoguida cassis. Mart. Ceruix languida. Stat. Languido colore herba in candidum vergente. Plin. Conuiua languidus. Horat. Languidas ictus, cui Creber opponitur. Plinius de pulsu arteriarum. A faint pulse that striketh feehly. Languidus ignis. Plin. A fire burning faintly. Lumina languida. Catul. Pecus languida ad pastum. Cic. A beast slow in eating of his meate. Quies languida. Virg. Semina nequitiæ languidiora facit. Ouid. Languidus succus. Plin. Vina lãguidiora. Hor. Weake wines that haue litle strength. Languidior homo. Cic. A man slow and lither in doing any thing.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: homines vino languidi, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; cf.: vino vigiliisque languidus, id. 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.