Plumbeus, adiect. Plaut.Of the colour of lead: leadie: heame as lead: that is of the propertie of lead. Per translationem, blunt, dull, lumpishe.Carialis plumbeus. Colum, A pipe of leade.Color plumbeus. Plin. A wanne leadie colour.Glans plumbea. Lucret. A pellet of lead.Mortarium plumbeum. Plin. A leaden morter.Pondera plumbea. Propert. Plumbeus thorax. Plin. Auster plumbeus, Hora.The lumpish south winde making men heauie and dull spirited.Plumbeo ingulare gladio.Cic.To conuince with a weake argument and of no force.Plumbeus homo. Teient. A lumpish man without courage or splrite: a dull heade: au heauie heade.Plumbeæ iræ.Plaut.Grieuons and long continuing anger.Plumbeum ingenium.A dull wit.Plumbeum esfe in realiqua.Cic.To be very dul & blockish, and to vnderst and nothing in a matter.Plumbâgo pen pro. plumbáginis, f. gen. Plin. A kind of mettal or oore. wherein is both siluer and lead. Plumbago, Herba. Plin. An hearbe with a leafe like sorel, good against the disease in the eic named PlumbÛ: some call it Persicariam maiotem.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
plumbĕus, a, um, adj. [plumbum], of or belonging to lead, made of lead, leaden, lead-.I.Lit.: plumbea glans, Lucr. 6, 306: pistillum, Plin. 34, 18, 50, 169: vas, id. 33, 6, 35, 109: ictus, blows given with a scourge to which a leaden ball is attached, Prud. stef. 10, 122.—Subst.1. plum-bĕum, i, n., a leaden vessel, Cato, R. R. 105: Nicerotiana, Mart. 6, 55, 3.—2. plum-bĕa, ae, f., a leaden ball: ut mortuus ictu plumbeae crederetur, Spart. Sever. 11, 2. —B.Transf.1.Leaden, blunt, dull (class.): plumbeo gladio jugulatus, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 2: o plumbeum pugionem!id. Fin. 4, 18, 48.—2.Leaden, bad, vile, poor, worthless (poet.): nummus, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 40; id. Trin. 4, 2, 120: faber, qui cudere soles plumbeos nummos, to coin leaden money, i. e. bad jokes, id. Most. 4, 2, 11; so, plumbei, as subst. (sc. nummi), Mart. 10, 74, 4: vina, Mart. 10, 49, 5: mala, id. 10, 94, 4: carmina, Aus. Ep. 6, 1.—3.Leaden, i. e. heavy, oppressive, burdensome (poet.): nec plumbeus Auster Auctumnusque gravis, Hor. S. 2, 6, 18.—II.Trop.A.Leaden, i. e. heavy, weighty (ante-class.): si quid peccatum est, plumbeas iras gerunt, Plaut. Poen. 3, 6, 16.—B.Leaden, dull, stupid, stolid (class.): caudex, stipes, asinus, plumbeus, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 4: nisi plane in physicis plumbei sumus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71: cor, without feeling, Licin. ap. Suet. Ner. 2.