Slow: dull: long in comming: harde witted: Thicke: grosse. Velox & Tardus contraria. Cic. Tardus incessu filius. Plin. A sonne that goeth slowly. Aetate tardus. Ouid. That goeth slowly by reason of age. Tarda ad pastum pecus. Cic. Tardus ad iniuriam. Cic. Not prompt to doe iniurie. Ad reserendam gratiam tardiorem esse. Cicer. To be more slacke to requite a good turne. Tardus in cogitando Cice. Tardum est dictu pluribus prosit, an noceat vinum. Plin. It is harde to say whether, &c. Agmen tardum. Virg. Asellus tardus. Virg. Corpora tarda. Virg. Fuga tarda. Ouid. Gradibus tardis errare. Ouid. To goe slowly. Grauiras tarda Ouid. Homo tardus Ci. One of dul vnderstanding & hard witted. Ingenium ta rdum. Cic. Tardum ingenium in accipiendis quæ traduntur. Plini. A dull wit to conreiue things taught. Tarda mens. Cice. Tardiores tibicinis modos, & cãtus remissiores facere. Cic. Moræ tardæ. Ouid. Noctes tardæ. Virg. Nights long ere they come. Opem tardam admouere Ouid. Paslu tardo incedere. Ouid. Pede tardo cunctari. Ouid. Principia orationis tarda. Cic. Prouisor tardus vrilium. Hor. Vt ea res tardior spe fuerir. Liu. How that thing came more slowly to passe than we thought. Senectus tarda, Hor. Slow olde age. Sensus heberes & tardi. Ci. Vnda rarda. Virg. Water running veric slowly. Tardus, Virg. Dull: grosse headed. Quidani nimis indociles tardiq, sont: Cicer. Tardus fumus. Virg. A grosse and thicke smoake.

I. Lit., of motion or action: velox an tardus sit, Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35: tardi sumus nos, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 66: aetate tardiores, id. ib. 3, 1, 6; cf. id. ib. 1 and 4: fatuus est, insulsus, tardus, stertit noctes et dies, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49: redemptor non inertiā aut inopiā tardior fuit, Cic. Div. 2, 21, 47: qualem existimas, qui in adulterio deprehenditur? tardum, id. de Or. 2, 68, 275: nemo erat adeo tardus aut fugiens laboris, Caes. B. C. 1, 69: tarda aliqua et languida pecus, Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 40: asellus, Verg. G. 1, 273: juvenci, id. ib. 2, 206: aves, quas Hispania tardas appellat, Graecia w)ti/das, Plin. 10, 22, 29, 56: Caesar ubi reliquos esse tardiores vidit, Caes. B. G. 2, 25: ad injuriam tardiores, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 33: tardior ad judicandum, id. Caecin. 4, 9: ad deponendum imperium, id. Rep. 2, 12, 23: ad discedendum, id. Att. 9, 13, 4; cf.: Bibulus in decedendo erit, ut audio, tardior, id. ib. 7, 3, 5: proci loripedes, tardissimi, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 7: Apollo, i. e. unpropitious, Prop. 1, 8, 41. —

b. Of things concr. and abstr.: tardiores tibicinis modi et cantus remissiores, Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 254: omnia tarda et spissa, id. Att. 10, 18, 2: fumus, Verg. A. 5, 682: frumenti tarda subvectio, Liv. 44, 8, 1: poena tardior, Cic. Caecin. 3, 7; Quint. 7, 2, 42: portenta deum tarda et sera nimis, Cic. poët. Div. 2, 30, 64: sic mihi tarda fluunt tempora, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 23: noctes, coming on late, Verg. G. 2, 482: tardiora fata, Hor. Epod. 17, 62: anne novum tardis sidus te mensibus addas, i. e. to the long summer months, Verg. G. 1, 32: nox, Ov. P. 2, 4, 26: tarda Genua labant, Verg. A. 5, 432: podagra, i. e. that makes one move slowly, Hor. S. 1, 9, 32: senectus, id. ib. 2, 2, 88; Tib. 2, 2, 19; cf. passus, Ov. M. 10, 49: abdomen, Juv. 4, 107: onus, Sen. Phoen. 568: sapor, i. e. that lingers long on the palate, Verg. G. 2, 126: lingua, Sen. Oedip. 293.—Poet., with gen.: tardus fugae, delaying his flight, Val. Fl. 3, 547; and with inf.: nectere tectos Numquam tarda dolos, Sil. 3, 234. —

II. Trop., slow of apprehension, dull, heavy, stupid.

A. In gen.: Ch. Prorsum nihil intellego. Sy. Hui, tardus es, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 28: sensus hebetes et tardi, Cic. Ac. 1, 8, 31: nimis indociles tardique, id. N. D. 1, 5, 12: si qui forte sit tardior, id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: tardi ingenii est, rivulos consectari, fontes rerum non videre, id. ib. 2, 27, 117: tardo ingenio esse, id. Agr. 3, 2, 6: mentes, id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68: ingenium, Quint. 1, 3, 2.—

B. In partic., of speech or of a speaker, slow, not rapid, measured, deliberate: in utroque genere dicendi principia tarda sunt, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 213: stilus, Quint. 10, 3, 5: tardior pronuntiatio, id. 10, 7, 22: tarda et supina compositio, id. 9, 4, 137: tardus in cogitando, Cic. Brut. 59, 216: Lentulus non tardus sententiis, id. ib. 70, 247.—Hence, adv.: tardē.

A. Slowly, tardily: tarde percipere (opp. celeriter arripere), Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31; Plaut. Pers. 5, 1, 20; id. Ps. 4, 3, 15; Cic. Fam. 14, 5, 1; id. Att. 3, 7, 3; 5, 15, 3; 11, 22, 2; id. Mil. 20, 54; Verg. G. 2, 3. — Comp.: tardius moveri, Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 51; id. Tusc. 1, 31, 75; 4, 14, 32; id. Prov. Cons. 14, 35; Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 3, 28 al.— Sup.: tardissime judicare, Cic. Caecin. 2, 7. —

B. Late, not in time, not early, Pall. 11, 14, 3.—Sup.: tardissime, at latest, Plin. 18, 7, 10, 51 and 56: quam tardissime, as late as possible, Asin. Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 1.