fē-rĭātus

fērĭor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. [feriac], to rest from work, to keep holiday (in the verb. finit. ante- and post-class. and very rare for ferias habere, agere; but class. in the P. a.):

Achilles ab armis feriabatur,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 7:

non fuerunt feriati,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 13 Müll.:

male feriatos Troas,

keeping festival at an unseasonable time, Hor. C. 4, 6, 14:

animus feriaturus,

Sid. Ep. 9, 11 med.:

sabatho etiam a bonis operibus,

Ambros. in Luc. 5, § 39.—Hence, fē-rĭātus, a, um, P. a., keeping holiday, unoccupied, disengaged, at leisure, idle.

Prop.:

familia,

Varr. R. R. 1, 16, 4:

Deum sic feriatum volumus cessatione torpere,

Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 102:

feriatus ne sis,

be not idle, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 62:

voluntate sua feriati a negotiis publicis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 58: feriatus ab iis studiis, in quae, etc., Trebon. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 2:

meditatio argutiarum, in qua id genus homines consenescunt male feriati quos philosophos vulgus esse putat,

with leisure ill employed, Gell. 10, 22, 24:

toga feriata,

long disused, Plin. Ep. 7, 3, 2; cf. id. ib. 5, 6, 45.—

Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things (very rare):

machaera feriata,

unemployed, idle, Plaut. Mil. 1, 7; so,

toga,

Plin. Ep. 7, 3, 2: freta, quiet, still, Prud. steph. 6, 156:

dies feriatus,

a holiday, Plin. Ep. 3, 14, 6; 10, 24, 3; Dig. 2, 12, 2; 6; 9.