(adj.adv.) : mĕdĭōcris, e (ō usually; rarely ŏ), adj. medius
* In a middle state between too much and too little, middling, moderate, tolerable, ordinary; sometimes also, not remarkable, indifferent, mediocre.
* In gen. (class.).
* Lit., of size, quantity, degree, etc., in material things: castellum,Sall. J. 92, 5: spatium,Caes. B. G. 5, 43: agmen,Hirt. B. G. 8, 9: intervallum,id. B. Alex. 30.
* Esp.
* Per litoten, with non (haud, nec), not insignificant, not common or trivial: Jugurthae non mediocrem animum pollicitando accendebant,i. e. ardent, ambitious,Sall. J. 8, 1: non mediocris hominis haec sunt officia,Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 9: haud mediocris hic, ut ego quidem intellego, vir fuit,Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55: nec mediocre telum ad res gerendas, id. Lael. 17, 61: non mediocrem sibi diligentiam adhibendam intellegebat,uncommon, extraordinary,Caes. B. G. 3, 20: praemium non mediocre,Suet. Vesp. 18: non mediocris dissensio,Quint. 9, 1, 10 et saep.—*
* With syllaba, common = anceps: syllabarum longarum et brevium et mediocrium junctura,Gell. 16, 18, 5.—Hence, adv.: mĕdĭōcrĭ-ter.
* Moderately, tolerably, ordinarily, not particularly, not very, not remarkably, not much (class.): ordo annalium mediocriter nos retinet,Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 5: corpus mediocriter aegrum,id. Tusc. 3, 10, 22.
* By litotes, with haud, ne, non (cf.: supra, mediocris, II. A.): flagitium, et damnum haud mediocriter,Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 13: non mediocriter,in no moderate degree,Caes. B. G. 1, 39: reprehensus est non mediocriter,i. e. greatly, exceedingly, very much,Quint. 11, 1, 17; so id. 8, 2, 2; 9; 11, 1, 57 al.
* With moderation, calmly, tranquilly = modice (rare, and perh. only in Cic.): quod mihi non mediocriter ferendum videtur,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 41, § 95.— Comp.: hoc vellem mediocrius,Cic. Att. 1, 20, 5.

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