(adj.adv.) : pĭger, gra, grum (late Lat. collat. form of
* Sup. pigrissimus, Tert. Exhort. ad Castit. 13), adj. piget.
* Lit., unwilling, reluctant, averse (rare): gens pigerrima ad militaria opera,Liv. 21, 25, 6: pigriores ad facinus,id. 39, 13, 11: pigriores ad cetera munia exequenda,Curt. 6, 9, 29: ad litteras scribendas pigerrimus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 1: ad conatus magnos piger,Sen. Ira, 3, 3, 1.
* Transf.
* Backward, slow, dull, lazy, indolent, sluggish, inactive (of persons and things).
* With in and abl.: interdum piger, interdum timidus in re militari videbare,Cic. Fam. 7, 17, 1.
* Dull, dispirited, dejected, sad (poet. and in postclass. prose): vultus,Mart. 2, 11, 3: pigrum aliquem facere,id. 10, 104, 15: piger tristisque,App. M. 4, p. 157 fin.
* Dull, unfeeling (poet.): hinc fessos subrepsit in artus Insidiosa quies et pigrae oblivio vitae,Stat. S. 1, 4, 56 sq.; cf.: indigna est pigro forma perire situ,Ov. Am. 2, 3, 14.—Hence, adv.: pĭgrē, slowly, sluggishly (post-Aug.): in servitutem transiens,Sen. Ira, 3, 17: pigre ac segniter agere,Col. 7, 5, 3.—Comp.: pigrius,Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; Luc. 5, 434.
* With inf. (poet.): piger scribendi ferre laborem,Hor. S. 1, 4, 12 (cf. the opp.: impiger hostium Vexare turmas,id. C. 4, 14, 22).—Absol.: pigrum et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare,Tac. G. 14 fin.—Hence, poet. transf.

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