(adjective) : flōrĭdus, a, um, flos
* Full of or abounding with flowers, flowery (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: hydrauli hortabere, ut audiat voces potius quam Platonis? expones, quae spectet, florida et varia?Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: serta,garlands of flowers,Ov. F. 6, 312: prata,Lucr. 5, 785; cf. Hybla,Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 38.
* Transf., of color, lively, gay, bright: colores,Plin. 35, 6, 12, § 30; 35, 10, 36, § 97.
* Trop., blooming, beautiful: puellula,Cat. 61, 57; cf.: Galatea Floridior prato, longa procerior alno,Ov. M. 13, 790: aetas,the bloom of youth,Cat. 68, 16; cf.: novitas mundi,Lucr. 5, 943: florida et vegeta forma,Suet. Galb. 20: Demetrius Phalereus est floridior, ut ita dicam, quam Hyperides,flowery, florid,Cic. Brut. 82, 285; cf.: tertium (dicendi genus) alii medium ex duobus, alii floridum (namque id ἀνθηρὸν appellant) addiderunt, Quint. 12, 10, 58: floridius genus (scriptorum),id. 2, 5, 18: oratio,id. 8, 3, 74: floridissimus tui sermonis afflatus,Aus. Ep. 17: floridior in declamando quam in agendo,Sen. Contr. 4 praef. 5. —Adv.: flōrĭde, with flowers, brightly: depicta vestis,App. M. 11 fin.: ecclesia clarius ac floridius enituit,Lact. Mort. Pers. 3.

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