Measurable: meane: moderate: not too bigge: not too litle: small. Ars mediocris. Cic. Iracundia mediocri iratus. Plin. Cura non mediocris. Hor. Great care. Infortunium mediocre. Plaut. Malum mediocre. Cic. Ingenium mediocre. Cic. Orator mediocris. Cic. Meane. Initium mediocre. Suet. Pœnæ mediocres. Plaut. Spatium mediocre. Plin. Sponsalia mediocria. Plin. Spowsals or mariages of them that be but meane: small or meane weddings. Statura mediocris. Plaut. Meane stature. In mediocri statu sermonis. Cic. In a meane kind of talke. Non mediocre telum ad res gerendas, fama. Cic. Fame is n small spurre to further men, or pricke them forward to not ble actis. Vitia mediocria. Hor. Small or meane.

I. In gen. (class.).

A. Lit., of size, quantity, degree, etc., in material things: castellum, Sall. J. 92, 5: spatium, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: agmen, Hirt. B. G. 8, 9: intervallum, id. B. Alex. 30.—

B. Of mind, character, ability, acts, achievements, etc.: C. L. Memmii fuerunt oratores mediocres, Cic. Brut. 36, 136: L. Cotta in mediocrium oratorum numero, id. ib. 36, 137: non mediocres viri, sed maximi et docti, id. Rep. 3, 11, 19: homines, id. de Or. 1, 21, 94: vir, Just. 1, 4, 4: poëta, Hor. A. P. 372: in mediocribus vel studiis vel officiis, Cic. Rep. 1, 3, 4: amicitia, id. Lael. 6, 10: malum, id. Tusc. 3, 10, 22: artes, id. de Or. 1, 2, 6: eloquentia, id. ib. 1, 29, 133: ingenium, id. ib. 2, 27, 119: excusare ... mediocris est animi, narrow, small, Caes. B. C. 3, 20: ut mediocris jacturae te mergat onus, Juv. 13, 7.—

II. Esp.

A. Per litoten, with non (haud, nec), not insignificant, not common or trivial: Jugurthae non mediocrem animum pollicitando accendebant, i. e. ardent, ambitious, Sall. J. 8, 1: non mediocris hominis haec sunt officia, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 9: haud mediocris hic, ut ego quidem intellego, vir fuit, Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55: nec mediocre telum ad res gerendas, id. Lael. 17, 61: non mediocrem sibi diligentiam adhibendam intellegebat, uncommon, extraordinary, Caes. B. G. 3, 20: praemium non mediocre, Suet. Vesp. 18: non mediocris dissensio, Quint. 9, 1, 10 et saep.—

B. With syllaba, common = anceps: syllabarum longarum et brevium et mediocrium junctura, Gell. 16, 18, 5.—Hence, adv.: mĕdĭōcrĭ-ter.

1. Moderately, tolerably, ordinarily, not particularly, not very, not remarkably, not much (class.): ordo annalium mediocriter nos retinet, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 5: corpus mediocriter aegrum, id. Tusc. 3, 10, 22.—

(b). By litotes, with haud, ne, non (cf.: supra, mediocris, II. A.): flagitium, et damnum haud mediocriter, Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 13: non mediocriter, in no moderate degree, Caes. B. G. 1, 39: reprehensus est non mediocriter, i. e. greatly, exceedingly, very much, Quint. 11, 1, 17; so id. 8, 2, 2; 9; 11, 1, 57 al.—

(g). Very little: ne mediocriter quidem disertus, not in the least, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 91.—

2. With moderation, calmly, tranquilly = modice (rare, and perh. only in Cic.): quod mihi non mediocriter ferendum videtur, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 41, 95.— Comp.: hoc vellem mediocrius, Cic. Att. 1, 20, 5.