angustus

angustus adj.with comp.and sup.

ANG-, narrow, strait, contracted : iter, S.: fines, Cs.: rima, H.: mare, a strait : angustissima portus, Cs.— Fig., short, brief : dies, O.: spiritus, breathing.— Needy, pinching, stinting : pauperies, H.: res, poverty , Iu.: cum fides totā Italiā esset angustior, shaken , Cs.— Critical, difficult : rebus angustis animosus, H.—Of character, narrow, base, little, petty : animus: defensio angustior, less honorable . — Of thought or argument, narrow, trifling, subtle, hairsplitting : concertationes: interrogatiunculae.—Of style, brief, succinct : oratio: quae angustiora parietes faciunt, i. e. less discursive than in the forum .