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Lewis Short
(adj.adv.) : vīlis, e, adj.
* Of small price or value, purchased at a low rate, cheap (opp. carus).
* Lit.: nec quicquam hic vile nunc est nisi mores mali,Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 10: annona vilior,id. Mil. 3, 1, 138: istaec (puella) vero vilis est,Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 25: istuc verbum vile est viginti minis,Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 139: ex eis praediis talenta argenti bina Statim capiebat ... Ac rebus vilioribus multo talenta bina,Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 8: frumentum quoniam vilius erat,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 195: res vilissimae (opp. pretiosissimae),id. Fin. 2, 28, 91.—Abl. neutr. (sc. pretio), at a small price, at a low rate, cheaply: Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 49: vili vendere,Mart. 12, 66, 10.— Comp.: quod viliori praedium distraxerit ... et si non viliori vendidit, etc.,Dig. 43, 24, 11, § 8.—Sup.: res stipulatoris vilissimo distracta est,Dig. 13, 4, 2 fin.
* Transf.
* Of trifling value, cheap, poor, paltry, common, mean, worthless, base, vile (cf. indignus): si honor noster vobis vilior fuisset,Cic. Fl. 41, 103: nihil tam vile neque tam vulgare,id. Rosc. Am. 26, 71: Velia non est vilior quam Lupercal,id. Fam. 7, 20, 1: hi quorum tibi auctoritas est videlicet cara, vita vilissima,id. Cat. 1, 8, 19: fidem fortunas pericula vilia habere,Sall. C. 16, 2: nec adeo vilis tibi vita esset nostra, ut, etc.,Liv. 40, 9: et genus et virtus nisi cum re vilior alga est,Hor. S. 2, 5, 8: inter Perfectos veteresque referri debet an inter Viles et novos?id. Ep. 2, 1, 38: vilis Europe,vile, abandoned,id. C. 3, 27, 57: tu poscis vilia rerum,id. Ep. 1, 17, 21: si, dum me careas, est tibi vile mori,Ov. H. 7, 48.— Neutr. adverb.: et vile virentes Hesperidum risit ramos,i. e. in the ordinary manner,Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 37: vile comparati, Schol. Juv. 11, 145.—Prov.: vile est, quod licet,Petr. 93.
* With inf.: stat fucare colos nec Sidone vilior, Ancon. Sil. 8, 438.
* Found in great quantities, abundant, common (poet. and rare): poma,Verg. G. 1, 274: phaselus,id. ib. 1, 227.—Hence, adv.: vīlĭter.
* Lit., cheaply: venire poteris intestinis vilius,Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 28: vilissime constat,Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45: vilissime constiterit,Col. 9, 1, 6.
* Transf., meanly, poorly, vilely: se ipsum colere,App. Flor. 1, p. 344, 29; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 97: vilissime natus,Eutr. 9, 21.
* Of small price or value, purchased at a low rate, cheap (opp. carus).
* Lit.: nec quicquam hic vile nunc est nisi mores mali,Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 10: annona vilior,id. Mil. 3, 1, 138: istaec (puella) vero vilis est,Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 25: istuc verbum vile est viginti minis,Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 139: ex eis praediis talenta argenti bina Statim capiebat ... Ac rebus vilioribus multo talenta bina,Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 8: frumentum quoniam vilius erat,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 195: res vilissimae (opp. pretiosissimae),id. Fin. 2, 28, 91.—Abl. neutr. (sc. pretio), at a small price, at a low rate, cheaply: Ep. Quanti eam emit? Th. Vili, Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 49: vili vendere,Mart. 12, 66, 10.— Comp.: quod viliori praedium distraxerit ... et si non viliori vendidit, etc.,Dig. 43, 24, 11, § 8.—Sup.: res stipulatoris vilissimo distracta est,Dig. 13, 4, 2 fin.
* Transf.
* Of trifling value, cheap, poor, paltry, common, mean, worthless, base, vile (cf. indignus): si honor noster vobis vilior fuisset,Cic. Fl. 41, 103: nihil tam vile neque tam vulgare,id. Rosc. Am. 26, 71: Velia non est vilior quam Lupercal,id. Fam. 7, 20, 1: hi quorum tibi auctoritas est videlicet cara, vita vilissima,id. Cat. 1, 8, 19: fidem fortunas pericula vilia habere,Sall. C. 16, 2: nec adeo vilis tibi vita esset nostra, ut, etc.,Liv. 40, 9: et genus et virtus nisi cum re vilior alga est,Hor. S. 2, 5, 8: inter Perfectos veteresque referri debet an inter Viles et novos?id. Ep. 2, 1, 38: vilis Europe,vile, abandoned,id. C. 3, 27, 57: tu poscis vilia rerum,id. Ep. 1, 17, 21: si, dum me careas, est tibi vile mori,Ov. H. 7, 48.— Neutr. adverb.: et vile virentes Hesperidum risit ramos,i. e. in the ordinary manner,Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 37: vile comparati, Schol. Juv. 11, 145.—Prov.: vile est, quod licet,Petr. 93.
* With inf.: stat fucare colos nec Sidone vilior, Ancon. Sil. 8, 438.
* Found in great quantities, abundant, common (poet. and rare): poma,Verg. G. 1, 274: phaselus,id. ib. 1, 227.—Hence, adv.: vīlĭter.
* Lit., cheaply: venire poteris intestinis vilius,Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 28: vilissime constat,Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 45: vilissime constiterit,Col. 9, 1, 6.
* Transf., meanly, poorly, vilely: se ipsum colere,App. Flor. 1, p. 344, 29; Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 97: vilissime natus,Eutr. 9, 21.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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