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  • 1 īgnāvus

        īgnāvus adj. with comp. and sup.    [2 in+gnavus], inactive, lazy, slothful, idle, sluggish, listless, without spirit, cowardly, dastardly: adeon me ignavom putas, Ut, etc., T.: homo ignavior: miles: ex ignavo strenuum exercitum fieri, S.: ignavissimus ad opera hostis, L.: legiones operum, Ta.: canis adversum lupos, H.: senectus: animo, Ta. —As subst m.: in bello poena ignavis ab imperatoribus constituitur: in victoriā vel ignavis gloriari licet, S.—Poet.: nemora, i. e. unfruitful, V.: otia, O.: lux, an idle day, Iu.—That renders slothful, making inactive: ratio, relaxing: genus hoc interrogationis: frigus, O.: aestus, O.
    * * *
    ignava -um, ignavior -or -us, ignavissimus -a -um ADJ
    lazy/idle/sluggish; spiritless; cowardly, faint-hearted; ignoble, mean; useless

    Latin-English dictionary > īgnāvus

  • 2 ignavus

    ignāvus, a, um, adj. [in-gnavus, navus], inactive, lazy, slothful, idle, sluggish, listless, without spirit, cowardly, dastardly (syn.: iners, socors; opp.: strenuus, alacer, fortis).
    I.
    Lit., of living beings (freq. and class.):

    homines,

    Plaut. Rud. 3, 5, 49:

    si non fecero Ei male aliquo pacto, me esse dicito ignavissimum,

    id. Bacch. 3, 6, 27:

    quid ergo ille ignavissumus mi latitabat?

    id. Trin. 4, 2, 82; 1, 2, 128; id. Poen. 4, 2, 24:

    homo inertior, ignavior, magis vir inter mulieres proferri non potest,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192:

    ignavus miles ac timidus,

    id. Tusc. 2, 23, 54; cf.:

    compertum habeo, milites neque ex ignavo strenuum neque fortem ex timido exercitum oratione imperatoris fieri,

    Sall. C. 58, 1:

    feroces et inquieti inter socios, ignavi et imbelles inter hostes,

    Liv. 26, 2, 11:

    ignavissimus ac fugacissimus hostis,

    id. 5, 28, 8:

    ignavissimi homines (opp.: fortissimi viri),

    Sall. C. 12 fin.:

    canis Ignavus adversum lupos,

    Hor. Epod. 6, 2:

    (apes) Ignavaeque fame et contracto frigore pigrae,

    Verg. G. 4, 259:

    ignavum, fucos, pecus a praesepibus arcent,

    id. A. 1, 435:

    genus ignavum quod lecto gaudet,

    Juv. 7, 105.— Subst.:

    cedentibus ignavis et imbecillis,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 32:

    in bello poena ignavis ab imperatoribus constituitur,

    id. Caecin. 16, 46:

    in victoria vel ignavis gloriari licet, adversae res etiam bonos detractant,

    Sall. J. 53 fin.; cf.:

    gloriam, honorem, imperium bonus ignavus aeque sibi exoptant,

    id. C. 11, 2:

    favimus ignavo,

    Ov. Am. 3, 2, 73.—
    (β).
    With gen.:

    legiones operum et laboris ignavae,

    Tac. A. 11, 18; cf.:

    possis ignavus haberi et subiti casus improvidus, si, etc.,

    Juv. 3, 272.
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Of inanim. and abstr. things (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    quae vitia non sunt senectutis, sed inertis, ignavae, somniculosae senectutis,

    Cic. de Sen. 11, 36:

    nemora,

    i. e. unfruitful, Verg. G. 2, 208:

    globus,

    i. e. immovable, Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 33; cf.

    gravitas,

    Ov. M. 2, 821:

    stagna jacentis aquae,

    Luc. 5, 442:

    ignavo stupuerunt verba palato,

    i. e. speechless, Ov. Am. 2, 6, 47:

    mora,

    id. A. A. 1, 186:

    anni,

    spent in idleness, id. Am. 1, 15, 1; cf.

    otia,

    id. Tr. 1, 7, 25:

    septima lux,

    i. e. the Jewish Sabbath, Juv. 14, 106: ignavum conferunt stipendium, only money, not soldiers, arms, etc., Vell. 2, 39, 1:

    sucus meconium vocatur, multum opio ignavior,

    weaker, less efficacious, Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 202: quorundam flos tantum jucundus, reliquae partes ignavae, ut violae ac rosae, without smell, id. 21, 7, 18, § 37:

    cornicula ante oculos ignava,

    i. e. of no use, id. 11, 28, 34, § 100:

    ignavum est rediturae parcere vitae,

    Luc. 1, 492.—
    B.
    Of things that produce inactivity or indolence, that renders slothful or inactive: nec nos impediet illa ignava ratio, quae dicitur: appellatur enim quidam a philosophis argos logos, cui si pareamus, nihil omnino agamus in vita. Sic enim interrogant:

    Si fatum tibi est, etc.... Recte genus hoc interrogationis ignavum et iners nominatum est, quod eadem ratione omnis e vita tolletur actio,

    relaxing, Cic. Fat. 12, 28 sq.:

    frigus,

    Ov. M. 2, 763:

    aestus,

    id. ib. 7, 529:

    dolor,

    Plin. 11, 18, 20, § 64.—Hence, adv. in two forms, ignāvē and ignā-vĭter.
    (α).
    Ignave, sluggishly, slothfully, without spirit:

    ne quid abjecte, ne quid timide, ne quid ignave, ne quid serviliter muliebriterve faciamus,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 55:

    dicere multa,

    flatly, tamely, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 67.—
    (β).
    Ignaviter, lazily, sluggishly, tardily: ignaviter quaerere, Lucil. ap. Non. 513, 14; Quadrig. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P.; Hirt. ap. Cic. Att. 15, 6, 2.—
    b.
    Comp.:

    carpere ignavius herbas,

    Verg. G. 3, 465.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > ignavus

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