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(adj.adv.) : 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.
* Addicted to pleasure; luxurious, voluptuous; and subst., a voluptuary, a wanton.
* 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.
* 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, παιδικῶν, 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.
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* 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.
* 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.
* Addicted to pleasure; luxurious, voluptuous; and subst., a voluptuary, a wanton.
* 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.
* 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, παιδικῶν, 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.
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* 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.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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