(adjective) : pensĭlis, e, pendeo
* Hanging, hanging down, pendent, pensile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. pendulus).
* Lit.: restim volo mihi emere, qui me faciam pensilem,Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 86: vehetur pensilibus plumis,i. e. in a bed,Juv. 1, 159: lychnuchi,Plin. 34, 3, 8, § 14: uva,which are hung up to be preserved during the winter,Hor. S. 2, 2, 121; cf. Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 15; in a double sense, alluding to the hanging of one's self,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 99: libertas pensilis,Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 70.
* Subst.: pensĭlĭa, ĭum, n.
* In archit., supported on arches, hanging, pensile: fabrica,Col. 1, 6, 16: horreum,id. 12, 50, 3: ambulatio,Plin. 36, 13, 18, § 83: urbs,id. 36, 15, 24, § 104: horti,hanging gardens,id. 36, 14, 20, § 94; Curt. 5, 1, 32: balneae, shower-baths or vapor-baths, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; Val. Max. 9, 1, 1; Macr. S. 2, 11, 3: tribus, on movable seats (in the theatre), Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 119.
* (Sc. membra) = penis: pulcre pensilibus peculiati,Auct. Priap. 53.

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