luxuriously

luxuriously, delicately, slowly.

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dēlĭcātus, a, um, adj. [deliciae].

That gives pleasure, i. e. alluring, charming, delightful; luxurious, voluptuous.

Prop. (class.):

in illo delicatissimo litore,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 40:

navigia,

Suet. Vit. 10:

delicatior cultus,

id. Aug. 65:

delicati hortuli,

Phaedr. 4, 5, 26;

and so often of places: muliebri et delicato ancillarum puerorumque comitatu,

Cic. Mil. 10, 28:

convivium,

id. Att. 2, 14:

voluptates (with molles and obscenae),

id. N. D. 1, 40, 111 and 113; cf.:

molliores et delicatiores in cantu flexiones,

id. de Or. 3, 25, 98:

sermo,

id. Off. 1, 40, 144:

omnes hominis libidines delicatissimis versibus exprimere,

id. Pis. 29, 70:

versiculos scribens,

Cat. 50, 3.—

As a flattering appellation:

ubi tu es delicata?

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 8.—

Transf., soft, tender, delicate ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

capella,

Cat. 20, 10; cf.:

puella tenellulo delicatior haedo,

id. 17, 15:

oves,

Plin. Ep. 2, 11 fin.:

Anio delicatissimus amnium,

id. ib. 8, 17, 3; cf.:

ad aquam,

Curt. 5, 2, 9:

delicatior teneriorque cauliculus,

Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 137; Vulg. 1 Par. 22, 5.—

Addicted to pleasure; luxurious, voluptuous; and subst., a voluptuary, a wanton.

Prop.:

adolescens,

Cic. Brut. 53:

pueri,

id. N. D. 1, 36 fin.:

juventus,

id. Mur. 35, 74; cf.:

odia libidinosae et delicatae juventutis,

id. Att. 1, 19, 8 et saep.: quosdam e gratissimis delicatorum, i. e. of the paramours, paidikôn, Suet. Tit. 7; cf. in the fem.:

Flavia Domitilla, Statilii Capellae delicata,

id. Vesp. 3;

et luxuriosus,

Vulg. Deut. 28, 54; in inscriptions, delicatus and delicata simply mean favorite slave (cf. our terms valet and chamber-maid), Inscr. Orell. 2801-2805 and 4650.—

Transf.

Spoiled with indulgence, delicate, dainty, effeminate: nimium ego te habui delicatam ( I have spoiled you), Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 10:

equorum cursum delicati minutis passibus frangunt,

Quint. 9, 9, 4, 113; id. 11, 3, 132.—

Fastidious, scrupulous:

aures,

Quint. 3, 1, 3;

vah delicatus!

Plaut. Mil. 4, 1, 37.—Hence, adv.: dēlĭcātē.

Delicately, luxuriously:

delicate ac molliter vivere,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106; cf. recubans (coupled with molliter), id. de Or. 3, 17, 63; and in the comp.:

tractare iracundos (with mollius), Sen. de Ira, 3, 9: odiosa multa delicate jocoseque fecit,

Nep. Alcib. 2 fin.; Vulg. Prov. 29, 21.—

At one's ease, tardily, slowly:

conficere iter (coupled with segniter),

Suet. Calig. 43:

spargit se vitis,

Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 179.

luxus, a, um, adj. [= Gr. loxos; v. luxo], dislocated:

luxum si quod est,

Cato, R. R. 160: luxo pede, Sall. Fragm. ap. Prob. p. 1476 P. (Hist. 5, 2); cf.: luxa membra e suis locis mota et soluta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 119, 17 Müll.— Subst.: luxum, i, n., a dislocation:

emplastrum utile ad luxa, vel fracta,

Marc. Emp. 36.

luxus, ūs, m. [1. luxus], a dislocation (ante- and post-class.):

ad luxum aut fracturam alliga: sanum fiet,

Cato, R. R. 160; App. Flor. p. 354 med.; Plin. Val. 2, 49.

luxus, ūs (dat. luxu, Sall. J. 6; Tac. A. 3, 34; id. H. 2, 71) [root luc-; cf. pol-luceo, pol-lucte; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 368 sq.].

Excess, extravagance in eating and drinking, luxury, debauchery:

adulescens luxu perditus,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 42:

in vino ac luxu,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62:

aliquid luxu antecapere,

Sall. C. 13:

luxu atque desidiā corrupta civitas,

id. ib. 57:

luxu et saginae mancipatus,

Tac. H. 2, 71; 4, 14:

per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere,

i. e. luxuriously and slothfully, Sall. J. 2:

flagitiosus, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 5, 3, 2: turpi fregerunt saecula luxu divitiae molles,

Juv. 6, 299.— In plur.:

nondum translatos Romana in saecula luxus,

Luc. 10, 109:

combibat illapsos ductor per viscera luxus,

Sil. 11, 402.—

Splendor, pomp, magnificence, state:

at domus interior regali splendida luxu Instruitur,

Verg. A. 1, 637:

epulaeque ante ora paratae Regifico luxu,

id. ib. 6, 604:

eruditus luxus,

Tac. A. 16, 18.

luxŭrĭōsus, a, um, adj. [luxuria], rank, luxuriant, exuberant.

Lit.:

frumenta,

Cic. Or. 24, 81:

seges,

Ov. F. 1, 690:

vitis valida et luxuriosa,

Col. 5, 6, 36:

vitis,

id. 4, 21, 2.—

Trop.

Immoderate, excessive:

luxurioso otio esse,

Sall. J. 100:

laetitia,

Liv. 2, 21.—

Immoderate, extravagant, wanton:

luxuriosissimum dictum,

Col. 8, 16:

amor,

Ov. R. Am. 746.—

Excessive, profuse, luxurious, voluptuous:

reprehendere luxuriosos,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 21:

multa et lauta supellex, non illa quidem luxuriosi hominis, sed tamen abundantis,

id. Phil. 2, 27, 66:

nihil luxuriosius,

id. Pis. 27, 66: homines luxuriosi prodigi (vocantur), Paul. ex Fest. p. 250:

cena,

Juv. 11, 77.—Hence, adv.: luxŭrĭōsē.

Wantonly, immoderately, excessively: ne haec laetitia nimis luxuriose eveniat, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3.—

Luxuriously, voluptuously:

cum libidinosis luxuriose vivere,

Cic. Cael. 6:

exercitum luxuriose habere,

Sall. C. 11. — Comp.:

luxuriosius epulari,

Nep. Paus. 3: struere fercula, Col. prooem.— Sup.:

luxuriosissime bibere,

Aug. Mor. Eccl. Cath. 34.

luxus, a, um, adj. [= Gr. loxos; v. luxo], dislocated:

luxum si quod est,

Cato, R. R. 160: luxo pede, Sall. Fragm. ap. Prob. p. 1476 P. (Hist. 5, 2); cf.: luxa membra e suis locis mota et soluta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 119, 17 Müll.— Subst.: luxum, i, n., a dislocation:

emplastrum utile ad luxa, vel fracta,

Marc. Emp. 36.

luxus, ūs, m. [1. luxus], a dislocation (ante- and post-class.):

ad luxum aut fracturam alliga: sanum fiet,

Cato, R. R. 160; App. Flor. p. 354 med.; Plin. Val. 2, 49.

luxus, ūs (dat. luxu, Sall. J. 6; Tac. A. 3, 34; id. H. 2, 71) [root luc-; cf. pol-luceo, pol-lucte; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 368 sq.].

Excess, extravagance in eating and drinking, luxury, debauchery:

adulescens luxu perditus,

Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 42:

in vino ac luxu,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62:

aliquid luxu antecapere,

Sall. C. 13:

luxu atque desidiā corrupta civitas,

id. ib. 57:

luxu et saginae mancipatus,

Tac. H. 2, 71; 4, 14:

per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere,

i. e. luxuriously and slothfully, Sall. J. 2:

flagitiosus, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 5, 3, 2: turpi fregerunt saecula luxu divitiae molles,

Juv. 6, 299.— In plur.:

nondum translatos Romana in saecula luxus,

Luc. 10, 109:

combibat illapsos ductor per viscera luxus,

Sil. 11, 402.—

Splendor, pomp, magnificence, state:

at domus interior regali splendida luxu Instruitur,

Verg. A. 1, 637:

epulaeque ante ora paratae Regifico luxu,

id. ib. 6, 604:

eruditus luxus,

Tac. A. 16, 18.

mūsĭcus. a, um, adj., = mousikos.

Of or belonging to music, musical (class.).

Adj.:

leges musicae,

the rules of music, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 39:

sonus citharae,

Phaedr. 4, 18, 20:

pedes,

Plin. 29, 1, 5, § 6.—

Subst.

mūsĭcus, i, m., a musician:

musicorum aures,

Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146.—

mūsĭ-ca, ōrum, n., music:

in musicis numeri, et voces, et modi,

Cic. de Or. 1, 42, 187:

dedere se musicis,

id. ib. 1, 3, 10:

et omnia musicorum organa,

Vulg. 1 Par. 16, 42.—

In gen.

Of or belonging to poetry, poetical; subst., a poet: applicare se ad studium musicum, the art of poetry, Ter. Heaut. prol. 23:

ars,

id. Phorm. prol. 18: musicus pes, a metrical foot of five syllables, ¯

˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ (e. g. temperantia),

Diom. p. 478 P.—

Of or belonging to science, scientific: ludus, scientific occupation, Gell. praef.—Hence, adv.: * mūsĭcē, = mousikôs: musice hercle agitis aetatem, you are in clover, i. e. living luxuriously at another's expense, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 40.

nĭtesco, tŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [niteo], to begin to shine or glitter, to shine, glitter ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit.: caelum nitescere, arbores frondescere, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (Trag. v. 192 Vahl.):

exiguo qui stellarum candore nitescit,

Cic. Arat. 174:

juventus Nudatos umeros oleo perfusa nitescit,

Verg. A. 5, 134:

nitescente novā lunā,

Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 2; 37, 12, 74, § 195:

ex umero Pelopis non nituisset ebur,

Tib. 1, 4, 58 (64).—

Transf.

Of animals, to grow sleek, well-conditioned, fat:

armenta nitescunt,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 3.—

Of persons, to become blooming; in perf., to be blooming:

o pueri, nituistis,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 128.—

Of plants, to grow luxuriously, to thrive, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 112.—

Trop., to be formed or cultivated:

ut ingenio, doctrinā, praeceptione natura nitescat,

Auct. Her. 3, 16, 29.— To become illustrious or celebrated:

quid non cultu nitescit?

Quint. 9, 4, 5 (Tac. A. 12, 58; Halm and Ritter, enitesceret).