Nimio, Ablatiuus, comparatiuis solet iungi: vt, Nimio minus. Plaut.Leasse by a great deale. Nimio minus sæuus iam sum, Qum fui. I am lesse cruell by a great deale than I was.Te nimio plus diligo.Cic.I lone you exceeding much more.Nimio plus quam velim.Liu.Vixisse nimio satius est, qum viuere.Plaut.
Nimium, Nomen pro aduerbio. Too much.Nemo nimium beatus est.Cic.Aduexit nimium bonæ rei.Plaut.Nimium aduenisti citò.Plaut.To art come too soone.Nimium constanter iniquus.Ouid.Nimium diu disputo.Cic.I dispute too long.Iussa patris nimium mihi dura videntur.Ouid.Nimium familiariter me attrectas.Plaut.Nimium feritatis.Ouid.Fertilis nimium tellus.Virg.A ground ouer fertile.Fortunati nimium agricolæ.Virg.Nimium graphicus nugator.Plaut.Nimium gulosus. Mart. Vereor ne indiligens nimium sies.Terent.Nimium fui indoctus.Plaut.Iratus nimium, nimiúmque seuerus. Tibul. Amat hunc hominem nimium lepidum, & nimia pulchritudine militem.Plaut.Nimium longum tempus illud mihi videtur.Cic.Nimium libenter audiui sermonem tuum. Plau. I hard your talke verie gladly, or with a right good will.Nimium miris modis.Plaut.Nimium multi pœnam capitis subirent. Cicero. Duer many should be put to death.Muta nimium in excogitandis argumentis dialectica, in iudicandis nimium loquax.Cic.Nimium parcèfacere sumptum.Terent.Verba paulò nimium redundantia.Cic.Wordes flowing in somewhat too much copie.NimiÛ qum Gellius, declamauerat Antonius præterqum semper alis, tum verò nimium qum delectabiliter & fœliciter.Exceeding desectably.Nimium quantum. Gell. Lingua tamen & facundia nimium quantum præstabilis. Yet in tongue and eloquence passing excellent.Nimium sæpe dicit is.Cic. Nimium sæuiter. Plaut.Sæuus nimium.Ouid. Nimium istoc abisti. Ter. Thou art gone to farre this way.Nimium ne crede colori.Virg.Nimium obsonauit.Plaut.He bestowed to much cost in prouision of meate.Illud non nimium probo quod scribis.Cic.I do not greatly allow that.Nimium multum scis.Plaut.Thou knowest too much.Nimium subuertere.Terent.
Nimius, Adiectiuum. Too much: excessine.Nimia est miseria pulchrum esse hominem nimis.Plaut.It is a verie great msserie.Nulla adeò ex re istuc fit, nisi ex nimio otio.Terent.But uen of too much idlenesse.In omnes partes nimia funditur.Cic.It spreadeth too largely euerle way.Æstus nimij. Lucr. Duer great heate.Aquæ nimiæ.Ouid.Ardor nimius. Lucret. Cædes nimia. Virg.Celeritates nimias sufcipere in festinationibus, cauÊdum est.Cic. Diligentia nimia Cic.Feruores nimij. Lucr. Imber nimius. Ouid.Lasciuia nimia.Ouid. Leuitas nimia. Ouid.Sol nimius.Ouid.The sunne too hotte or vehement.Nimius animi.Liu.Of too great a tourage.Nimius imperij. Li. Dne that would be too straightly obeyed.Sermonis nimius erat. Tac. He was too full of wordes.In honoribus decernendis est nimius, & tanquam prodigus.Cic.He is ouer liberall in giuing promotions.Nimia circum maritum vxor. Vlpian. Homo nimius mero. Horat. Dne that is a great drinker.Vites fæce nimiæ. Plin. Qines that cast too much lies in the wine.Niminm absolutè.Cic. Aiunt nimia resecari oportere, naturalia relinqui. They say those things that are supersluous must be cut away.Nimius & modicus, contraria.Cic.
nĭmĭus, a, um, adj. [nimis], beyond measure, excessive, too great, too much. I.Lit.: quod autem satis est, eo quidquid accesserit nimium est, Cic. Fin. 5, 27, 81: vitem coërcet, ne in omnes partes nimia fundatur, id. Sen. 15, 52: nimiae celeritates, id. Off. 1, 36, 131: nimiā pertinaciā atque arrogantiā, Caes. B. C. 1, 85: Prometheus Assiduam nimio pectore pavit avem,
that grew again too fast
, Mart. Spect. 7, 2.—(b). With abl. of thing, excessive, immoderate, intemperate in any thing: fiduciā nimius, Sall. Fragm. ap. Arus. Mess.: rebus secundis nimii,
too much elated
, Tac. H. 4, 23: nimius mero, Hor. C. 2, 12, 5.—(g). With gen.: impotens et nimius animi est, Liv. 6, 11, 3: imperii, id. 3, 26: sermonis, Tac. H. 3, 75: pugnae, Sil. 5, 232.—2.Subst.: nĭmĭum, ii, n., too much, superabundance, excess: mediocritatem illam tenebit, quae est inter nimium et parum, Cic. Off. 1, 25, 89: juris, Sil. 14, 670: auri argentique nimium fuit, Plin. 33 prooem. 5.—B. In partic., too mighty, too powerful (post-Aug.): Cn. Pompeium esse nimium jam liberae reipublicae, Vell. 2, 32, 1: legio legatis nimia ac formidolosa erat, Tac. Agr. 7; Flor. 3, 15, 3.—II.Transf., great beyond measure, i. e. very great, very much: homo nimiā pulchritudine, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 8: nimia memoras mira, id. Am. 2, 1, 69; 5, 1, 52; Mart. 5, 64, 3.—2.Subst.: nĭmĭum, ii, n.: nimium boni est, cui nil est [in diem] mali, it is great good fortune (a transl. of Eurip. Hec. 2: kei=nos o)lbiw/tatos), Enn. ap. Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 41 (Trag. v. 237 Vahl.).—Hence, b. In the abl., nĭmĭo, adverb., exceedingly, by far, much, very, Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 6: nimio mavolo, id. Poen. 1, 2, 90.—Esp., with comparatives, = multo: scito, nimio celerius venire quod molestum'st, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 69 Lorenz ad loc.: nimio nequior, id. ib. 1, 2, 65: quia te nimio plus diligo, Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 10, 8 A, 1: ne doleas plus nimio, Hor. C. 1, 33, 1: nimio minus, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 21: nimio melius, id. Pers. 1, 3, 31: nimio plus quam satis tutum esset, etc., Liv. 1, 2, 3: nimio plus quam velim, id. 2, 37, 4; 29, 33, 4: nimio amplior, Gell. 1, 3, 25.—Hence, adv., in two forms. A. nĭmĭum, too much, too ( = nimis, in all uses, v. infra): nimium parce facere sumptum, Ter. And. 2, 6, 19: nimium dicere, opp. parum, Cic. Clu. 58, 160: nimium ne crede colori, Verg. E. 2, 17: diu, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 10: longum tempus, id. Att. 12, 18, 1: nimium multi, id. Clu. 46, 126: nimium gratum ... gratum praeter modum, id. Planc. 33, 82: amantes mei, Quint. 1 prooem. 7 et saep.— (b). Non nimium, not very much, not particularly: illud non nimium probo, Cic. Fam. 12, 30, 7.—2.Transf., very much, greatly, exceedingly: homo nimium lepidus, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 8: nimium lepida nimisque nitida femina, id. ib. 4, 2, 12; id. Ps. 1, 2, 71: loci nimium mirabiles, id. Trin. 4, 2, 86: nimium vellem, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 49: o fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, Agricolas!Verg. G. 2, 458: felix, heu nimium felix!id. A. 4, 657; Stat. S. 3, 3, 25.—In class. prose esp.—b. Nimium quantum, as much as can be, very much indeed, exceedingly, very: differt inter honestum et turpe nimium quantum, Cic. Fin. 4, 25, 70: sales in dicendo nimium quantum valent, id. Or. 26, 87: ille nimium quantum audacter, Oves, inquit, etc., Gell. 16, 6, 9 (nimium quam, false reading for quae nimium, Quint. 4, 2, 70. In Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 13, the better reading is hem quam, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).—B. nĭmĭē (post-class.). 1.Too much, excessively: nimie aliquid facere, Capitol. Gord. 6: arat (frontem rugis) non nimie sed pulchre dictum, Macr. S. 6, 6.—2.Transf., very much, very: in locis nimie frigidis, Pall. 4, 10.