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  • 1 ancillaris

    ancillāris, e, adj. [id.], relating to maid - servants.
    I.
    Lit.: artificium, the service of handmaid, * Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58:

    ancillaris vestis,

    Dig. 47, 10, 15, § 15.—
    II.
    Trop.:

    adulatio ancillaris,

    servile flattery, Amm. 26, 6.

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  • 2 adulatio

    ădūlātĭo, ōnis, f. [adulor], a fawning, like that of a dog (adulatio est blandimentum proprie canum, quod et ad homines tractum consuetudine est, Non. 17, 4).—In the post-Aug. historians, esp. in Tac., very freq. for a servile respect exhibited by bowing the body = adoratio.
    I.
    Lit.:

    canum tam fida custodia tamque amans dominorum adulatio,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 63.—So of doves, a billing, Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 104.—Of men toward animals, Col. 6, 2, 5.—
    II.
    Fig., low, cringing flattery, adulation:

    in amicitiis nullam pestem esse majorem quam adulationem, blanditiam, assentationem,

    Cic. Lael. 25, 91:

    pars altera regiae adulationis (i. e. adulatorum) erat,

    Liv. 42, 30:

    humi jacentium adulationes,

    id. 9, 18; cf. Curt. 8, 6; so Tac. A. 1, 13, 14; 2, 32; 3, 2; 4, 6; 5, 7; 15, 59; id. G. 8, etc.; Suet. Aug. 53; Plin. Pan. 41, 3 al.

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  • 3 adulor

    ădūlor, ātūs, 1, v. dep. [acc. to Lobeck, the -ulo, -ulor is connected with illein (cf. eiluô, eluô, and volvo), and thus denoted orig. the wagging of the tail and fawning of brutes; Fest. p. 21 Müll., thought adulor was a form of adludo, to play with; cf. Ger. wedeln and Eng. to wheedle], to cling to one fawningly, to fawn as a dog; and trop., of cringing flattery, which is exhibited in words and actions, to flatter in a cringing manner, to fawn upon (while assentari signified to yield to one in everything, to assent to what he says, and is used only of men; and blandiri, to be soft and pleasing in manner, to flatter by honeyed words as well as by captivating manners; cf. Cic. Lael. 25).— Constr. with acc., more rarely with dat., Rudd. II. p. 136; Zumpt, § 389.
    I.
    In gen.:

    ferarum Agmen adulantum,

    Ov. M. 14, 45:

    Quin etiam blandas movere per aëra caudas, Nostraque adulantes comitant vestigia,

    id. ib. 14, 257. caudam more adulantium canum blande movet, Gell. 5, 14:

    hi (canes) furem quoque adulantur,

    Col. 7, 12.— Meton.:

    horrentem, trementem, adulantem omnīs videre te volui: vidi,

    Cic. Pis. 41:

    aperte adulantem nemo non videt,

    id. Lael. 26:

    aut adulatus aut admiratus fortunam sum alterius,

    id. Div. 2, 2, 6;

    Liv 45, 31: quemcunque principem,

    Tac. H. 1, 32:

    Neronem aut Tigellium,

    id. A. 16, 19: dominum, Sen. de Ira, 2, 31; Nep., Liv., and Curt. have the dat.: Antonio, Nep. [p. 47] Att. 8:

    praesentibus,

    Liv. 36, 7:

    singulis,

    Curt. 4, 1, 19.—In the time of Quint. the use of the dat. was predominant: huic non hunc adulari jam dicitur, 9, 3, 1; yet Tac. preferred the acc., v. the passages cited above.—
    II.
    Esp. of the servile reverence paid to Asiatic kings, proskunein; cf.

    adulatio: more adulantium procubuerunt: conveniens oratio tam humili adulationi fuit,

    Liv. 30, 16:

    more Persarum,

    Val. Max. 4, 7, ext. 2; so id. ib. 6, 3, ext. 2.—Hence, ădū-lans, antis, P. a., flattering, adulatory:

    verba,

    Plin. Pan. 26:

    quid adulantius?

    Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 27.— Sup. is wanting.—
    * Adv.: ădūlanter, flatteringly, fawningly, Fulg. Contin. Verg. p. 153.

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  • 4 vernilis

    vernīlis, e, adj. [verna], of or belonging to a home-born slave (verna), slavish, i. e.,
    I.
    Mean, fawning, servile:

    blanditiae,

    Tac. H. 2, 59:

    corpora,

    Quint. Decl. 9, 12.—
    * II.
    Jesting, pert, waggish:

    dictum,

    Tac. H. 3, 32 fin.—Adv.: vernīlĭter, slavishly, servilely:

    fungi officiis,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 108: nimis hoc fit verniliter, i. e. with fawning flattery, cringingly, Caecil. ap. Non. 42, 27:

    haec ipsa non verniliter, nec eā figurā, quā, etc.,

    jestingly, jokingly, Sen. Ben. 2, 11, 3.

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