Cold: stiffe: hard: sharpe or cruel: rigorous. Nec poterit rigidas scindere remus aquas. Ouid. The Dare that can not breake the yse, or water frozen. Manus rigida. Ouid. Pruinæ rigidæ. Lucr. Frostes with yse. Quercus rigidæ. Virg. Stiffe okes. Aesculus rigida. Hor. Rigida caligo. Ci. A colde miste. Capillis rigidis hirta canities. Ouid. A curled hoart heade with hard haire. Cornu rigidum. Ouid. An harde horne. Aues rigidis cruribus. Ci. Ensis rigidus. Vir. Ferro rigido fodit pectora. Ouid. Mons rigidus. Oui. A cold frosen hil: a stiffe and harde hil. Pectus rigidum. Oui. Silex rigidus. Ouid. Rostrum rigidum. Ouid. Vngues rigidi. Ouid. Hard nayles. Rigidus leo. Mart. A cruel and fierce lion. Fores rigidæ. Ouid. Rigidæ innocentiæ homo. Liuius. A man of such firme and constant honestie % he wil not be led from it in any thing. Ius est rigidum & iueuitabile mortis. Ouid. Rigida mente negauit opem. Vir. With an hard hart he denied to helpe hinr. Minæ rigidæ. Ouid. Mores rigidi. Ouid. Rude and rigorous conditions. Mors rigida, Lucret. Cruel death. Pudor rigidus. Claud. Sententia rigida & dura. Plin. iun. Canachi signa rigidiora, qum vt imitentur veritatem. Ci. Canachus his images are more rudely made thā that &c. Vultus rigidus & trux. Ou. A cruel and sierce countenance.

I. Lit.: pruinae, Lucr. 2, 521; cf.: rigidum permanat frigus ad ossa, id. 1, 355: tellus, Verg. G. 2, 316: aqua, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 48: umbrae, Lucr. 5, 764: frigus, id. 1, 356: cervicem rectam oportet esse non rigidam aut supinam, Quint. 11, 3, 82; cf. id. 11, 3, 160; so, cervix, Liv. 35, 11; Suet. Tib. 68; Ov. Tr. 1, 4, 14: artus morte, Lucr. 6, 1196: crura, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101: rostrum, Ov. M. 5, 673: cornu, id. ib. 9, 85: setae, id. ib. 8, 428: capilli, id. ib. 10, 425: oculi (with extenti), Quint. 11, 3, 76 et saep.: quercus, Verg. E. 6, 28; cf. columnae, Ov. F. 3, 529: malus, id. H. 5, 53.— In mal. part.: illud, Petr. 134, 11; cf. Mart. 6, 49, 2.— Hence: custos ruris, i. e. Priapus, Ov. F. 1, 391; Auct. Priap. 46; and absol.: rĭgĭda, f., Cat. 56, 7: silices, hard, Ov. M. 9, 613; 225: saxum, id. ib. 4, 517: mons, hard, rocky, id. ib. 8, 797: Niphates, Hor. C. 2, 9, 20: ferrum, Ov. R. Am. 19: serae, id. F. 1, 124: ensis, Verg. A. 12, 304; Ov. M. 3, 118: hasta, Verg. A. 10, 346: unguis, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 4 et saep.—

II. Trop., stiff, hard, inflexible, rigid; hardy, stern, rough (syn.: tristis, severus): vox, hard, harsh, Quint. 11, 3, 32: Sabini, rough, rude, unpolished, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 25; Ov. M. 14, 797: Getae, Hor. C. 3, 24, 11; Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 46: fossor, hardy, Mart. 7, 71, 4; cf. manus, Ov. M. 14, 647: virtutis verae custos rigidusque satelles, stern, inflexible, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 17; so, censor, Ov. A. A. 2, 664: parens, id. M. 2, 813: senes, id. F. 4, 310: mens, id. H. 3, 96: vultus, id. ib. 4, 73: rigidi et tristes satellites, Tac. A. 16, 22: (Cato) rigidae innocentiae, Liv. 39, 40, 10; cf. of the younger Cato: rigidi servator honesti, Luc. 2, 389; so, mores, Ov. R. Am. 762: rigida duraque sententia Macri, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 19; Sen. Ep. 11, 10; 21, 3; 81, 4: Mars, rough, fierce, Ov. M. 8, 20: leo, Mart. 10, 65, 13.— Comp.: quis non intellegit Canachi signa rigidiora esse quam ut imitentur veritatem? too stiff, hard, harsh, Cic. Brut. 18, 70: similis in statuariis differentia ... jam minus rigida Calamis fecit, Quint. 12, 10, 7.— Sup.: Abdera fatua et stoliditatis rigidissimae, Arn. 5, 164.—Hence, adv.: rĭgĭdē.

a. Inflexibly; in a straight line, Vitr. 2, 3, 2; Sen. Ben. 2, 17, 4.—

b. Rigorously, severely, Ov. Tr. 2, 251.— Comp.: disciplinam militarem rigidius adstringere, Val. Max. 9, 7 fin.