tŏlĕrābĭ-lĭter

tŏlĕrābĭlis, e, adj. [tolero].

Pass., that may be borne, bearable, supportable, endurable, passable, tolerable (class.):

amicitiae si tolerabiles erunt, ferendae sunt,

Cic. Lael. 21, 78:

tolerabilis conditio servitutis,

id. Cat. 4, 8, 16:

genus rei publicae,

id. Rep. 1, 26, 42:

fenus,

id. Att. 6, 1, 16:

hoc utcumque tolerabile: gravius illud quod, etc.,

Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 2:

regi tolerabili, aut, si vultis, etiam amabili,

Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44; cf.

orator,

id. Brut. 48, 178:

oratores,

id. de Or. 1, 2, 8:

Minucius jam ante vix tolerabilis,

Liv. 22, 27, 1:

non tolerabile numen,

Verg. A. 5, 768:

habitus,

Val. Max. 4, 1, 1.— Comp.:

senectus,

Cic. Sen. 3, 8:

tolerabilius est sic dicere, etc.,

id. de Or. 1, 50, 218.— Sup.:

sententia,

Dig. 28, 5, 18. —

Act., that can easily bear or endure, enduring, sustaining, supporting (rare; not in Cic.;

but cf. tolerabiliter, 2.): homo,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 31:

quas (oves) ille tempore auctumni ratus adhuc esse tolerabiles,

i. e. able to support the winter, Col. 7, 3, 14.— Adv.: tŏlĕrābĭ-lĭter.

Bearably, passably, tolerably:

facere aliquid,

Col. 11, 2, 85:

dicere,

id. 2, 2, 3:

dare veratrum,

Cels. 2, 13.—

For toleranter, patiently:

etenim si dolores eosdem tolerabilius patiuntur,

Cic. Fin. 3, 13, 42; so,

tolerabilius ferre igniculum desiderii,

id. Fam. 15, 20, 2.