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"description": "(adj.adv.) : frīgĭdus, a, um, adj.frigeo\n* Cold, cool, chill, chilling (opp. calidus; syn.: gelidus, algidus, glacialis; corresp. in most of its senses to the Gr. ψυχρός).\n* Lit.: calida et frigida, et amara et dulcia,Cic. Rep. 3, 8 fin.: fons luce diurnā Frigidus, et calidus nocturno tempore,Lucr. 6, 849: fons,id. ib. 6, 873; 879; cf.: frigidior umor,id. 6, 840; 844: nec ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi,Cic. Leg. 2, 3, 6: ut nec frigidior Thracam ambiat Hebrus,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 13: loca frigidissima,Caes. B. G. 4, 1 fin.: rura,Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 9: Praeneste,id. C. 3, 4, 22: Tempe,Verg. G. 2, 469: aquilo,id. ib. 2, 404: aura,Ov. Am. 2, 16, 36; cf.: manet sub Jove frigido Venator,Hor. C. 1, 1, 25: umbra noctis,Verg. E. 8, 14: caelum est hieme frigidum et gelidum,cold and frosty,Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 4: frigidus aëra vesper Temperat,Verg. G. 3, 336: frigidus latet anguis in herba,id. E. 3, 93: anguis,id. ib. 8, 71 (cf. ψυχρὸν ὄφιν, Theogn. 602; Theocr. 15, 58): pellis duraque,Lucr. 6, 1194: febris,an ague,Plin. 26, 11, 71, § 289; so, quartana,Hor. S. 2, 3, 290: fomenta,id. Ep. 1, 3, 26.— Poet.: ille frigidas Noctes non sine multis Insomnis lacrimis agit,i. e. without a bedfellow, lonely,Hor. C. 3, 7, 6: frigidus annus,winter,Verg. A. 6, 311; Tib. 4, 8, 4 Huschke (al. amnis).—Prov.: aquam frigidam suffundere, to pour cold water over for to slander, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 37; v. suffundo.\n* As subst.\n* Trop.\n* In partic., cold, chilled, of a dead person, or one stiffened with fright (for the latter cf.: est et frigida multa, comes formidinis aura,Lucr. 3, 290; poet.): illa (Eurydice) Stygiā nabat jam frigida cymbā,Verg. G. 4, 506; Ov. M. 7, 136; also, transf.: Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, Ah, miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente vocabat,Verg. G. 4, 525: membra nati,Ov. M. 14, 743: mors,Verg. A. 4, 385; Val. Fl. 5, 26; cf.: pausa vitaï,Lucr. 3, 930: stricto Aesonides stans frigidus ense,stiffened with fright,Val. Fl. 7, 530: miles nec frigidus aspicit hostem,i. e. fearless,Sil. 9, 49; cf.: formidine turpi Frigida corda tremunt,id. 2, 339: frigida mens criminibus,Juv. 1, 166: mihi frigidus horror Membra quatit,Verg. A. 3, 29.\n* In a contracted form: FRIDVM, i, n.: DA FRIDVM PVSILLVM, i. e. a little ice-water, Inscr. Pompej. in Mus. Borbon. IV. p. 5 (cf.: solve nives,Mart. 5, 64).\n* Without ardor or encrgy, cold, frigid, indifferent, inactive, remiss, indolent, feeble: nimis lentus in dicendo et paene frigidus,Cic. Brut. 48, 178: accusatoribus frigidissimis utitur,lukewarm, indolent,id. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3: non frigida virgo,i. e. glowing with love,Ov. Am. 2, 1, 5; cf.: frigidus aevo Laomedontiades,Juv. 6, 325: (equus) Frigidus in Venerem senior, Verg. G. 3, 97: (Empedocles) ardentem Frigidus Aetnam Insiluit,in cold blood,Hor. A. P. 465: in re frigidissima cales, in ferventissima friges,Auct. Her. 4, 15, 21: frigidae litterae,cold, frigid,Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 1: solacia,Ov. P. 4, 2, 45; cf. cura,Lucr. 4, 1060 (with which cf.: curarum frigus,Ov. P. 3, 9, 25): frigida bello Dextera,feeble,Verg. A. 11, 338: ensis,inactive, idle,Luc. 5, 245; 7, 502: (apes) Contemnuntque favos et frigida tecta relinquunt,i. e. not animated by labor,Verg. G. 4, 104 (cf. opp. fervet opus, id. ib. 169).\n* Without force or point, flat, insipid, dull, trivial, frigid, vain (syn.: jejunus, inanis; opp. salsus, facetus, esp. in post-Aug. prose): cave in ista tam frigida, tam jejuna calumnia delitescas,Cic. Caecin. 21, 61; cf.: haec aut frigida sunt, aut tum salsa, cum aliud est exspectatum,id. de Or. 2, 64, 260: (sententias) dicere leves, frigidas ineptas,Quint. 8, 5, 30: verba frigidiora vitare,Cic. de Or. 2, 63, 256; cf. id. Or. 26, 89: frigidi et arcessiti joci,Suet. Claud. 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 69: illud frigidum et inane,id. 10, 2, 17: illud apud Euripidem frigidum sane, quod, etc.,id. 5, 10, 31: frigida et puerilis affectatio,id. 4, 1, 77: frigida et inanis affectatio,id. 7, 3, 74: genus acuminis in reprehendendis verbis, nonnumquam frigidum, interdum etiam facetum,Cic. Brut. 67, 236: in salibus aliquando frigidus,Quint. 12, 10, 12: dies frigidis rebus absumere,Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3: negotia,id. ib. 9, 2, 1; cf.: omnia ista frigida et inania videntur,id. ib. 4, 17, 4; Sen. de Ira, 2, 11.— With a subject-clause: leve ac frigidum sit his addere, quo propinquos amicosque pacto tractaverit,Suet. Calig. 26.—*\n* With active meaning, causing cold or fright, frightening: frigidus a rostris manat per compita rumor,Hor. S. 2, 6, 50.—Hence, adv.: frīgĭde (only acc. to II. and very rare; not in Cic.).\n* Inactively, slowly, feebly: quae cupiunt, tamen ita frigide agunt, ut nolle existimentur, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 3.\n* Flatly, trivially, insipidly, frigidly: verbis inepte et frigide uti,Gell. 13, 24, 7; so with inaniter,id. 7, 3, 43; with exigue, opp. graviter,id. 19, 3, 1; cf. also: quae sunt dicta frigidius,Quint. 6, 3, 4: transire in diversa subsellia, parum verecundum est ... Et si aliquando concitate itur, numquam non frigide reditur,i. e. in a silly, ridiculous manner,id. 11, 3, 133: tum ille infantem suam frigidissime reportavit,id. 6, 1, 39."
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