Vile: of no valne: little worth: good cheape: of little price. Vilis & pretiosus contraria. Cic. Vile & vulgare. Cice. Vile habere aliquid. Salu. To esteeme a thing little worth: to set little by it: to make small accompt of it. Alimenta vilia. Ouid. Vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum. Horat, Siluer is of lesse value than golde, and golde lessc worth than vertue and honestie. Pars vilissima rerum, opes. Luca. Riches of all other things the basest. Seruulus vilis. Ci. Supellex villis. Virg. Vestis vilisq; vetusq;. Ouid. Vilis vobis honor meus. Ci. You make no accompt of mine honour, you set little by it. Vilis oratio, cui opponitur Accurata. Quint. Vile, Cic That is snlde good cheape: at a low price. Frumentum quoniam vilius erat,ne emisses. Cic. Vilis amicorum est annona, bonis vbi quid deest. Horat. Friends are good theape, or mape soane bee procured in time of neede or pouettie: when men are in neede, one may easily procute friends. Aqua rerum vilissima. Hor. Oua vilia. Hor. Good cheape egges. Vile pretium. Plin. A low price. Pretium non vile laboris. Ouid. No small rewarde of ones labour. Proiecta vilior alga. Virg. Oslesse value: more vile than, &c. Vili vendere, vel emere. Plautus. Mart. To sell or buy good cheape. Istoc vilius. Ter. Not this much worth, pointing to a straw or other like thing of small value.

I. Lit.: nec quicquam hic vile nunc est nisi mores mali, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 10: annona vilior, id. Mil. 3, 1, 138: istaec (puella) vero vilis est, Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 25: istuc verbum vile est viginti minis, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 139: ex eis praediis talenta argenti bina Statim capiebat ... Ac rebus vilioribus multo talenta bina, Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 8: frumentum quoniam vilius erat, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, 195: res vilissimae (opp. pretiosissimae), id. Fin. 2, 28, 91.—Abl. neutr. (sc. pretio), at a small price, at a low rate, cheaply: Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 49: vili vendere, Mart. 12, 66, 10.— Comp.: quod viliori praedium distraxerit ... et si non viliori vendidit, etc., Dig. 43, 24, 11, 8.—Sup.: res stipulatoris vilissimo distracta est, Dig. 13, 4, 2 fin.—

II. Transf.

A. Of trifling value, cheap, poor, paltry, common, mean, worthless, base, vile (cf. indignus): si honor noster vobis vilior fuisset, Cic. Fl. 41, 103: nihil tam vile neque tam vulgare, id. Rosc. Am. 26, 71: Velia non est vilior quam Lupercal, id. Fam. 7, 20, 1: hi quorum tibi auctoritas est videlicet cara, vita vilissima, id. Cat. 1, 8, 19: fidem fortunas pericula vilia habere, Sall. C. 16, 2: nec adeo vilis tibi vita esset nostra, ut, etc., Liv. 40, 9: et genus et virtus nisi cum re vilior alga est, Hor. S. 2, 5, 8: inter Perfectos veteresque referri debet an inter Viles et novos? id. Ep. 2, 1, 38: vilis Europe, vile, abandoned, id. C. 3, 27, 57: tu poscis vilia rerum, id. Ep. 1, 17, 21: si, dum me careas, est tibi vile mori, Ov. H. 7, 48.— Neutr. adverb.: et vile virentes Hesperidum risit ramos, i. e. in the ordinary manner, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 37: vile comparati, Schol. Juv. 11, 145.—Prov.: vile est, quod licet, Petr. 93.—

(b). With inf.: stat fucare colos nec Sidone vilior, Ancon. Sil. 8, 438. —

B. Found in great quantities, abundant, common (poet. and rare): poma, Verg. G. 1, 274: phaselus, id. ib. 1, 227.—Hence, adv.: vīlĭter.

1. Lit., cheaply: venire poteris intestinis vilius, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 28: vilissime constat, Plin. 18, 6, 8, 45: vilissime constiterit, Col. 9, 1, 6.—

2. Transf., meanly, poorly, vilely: se ipsum colere, App. Flor. 1, p. 344, 29; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 97: vilissime natus, Eutr. 9, 21.