ignavus

īgnāvus adj.with comp.and sup.

2 in+gnavus, inactive, lazy, slothful, idle, sluggish, listless, without spirit, cowardly, dastardly : adeon me ignavom putas, Ut, etc., T.: homo ignavior: miles: ex ignavo strenuum exercitum fieri, S.: ignavissimus ad opera hostis, L.: legiones operum, Ta.: canis adversum lupos, H.: senectus: animo, Ta.—As subst m. : in bello poena ignavis ab imperatoribus constituitur: in victoriā vel ignavis gloriari licet, S.—Poet.: nemora, i. e. unfruitful , V.: otia, O.: lux, an idle day , Iu.— That renders slothful, making inactive : ratio, relaxing : genus hoc interrogationis: frigus, O.: aestus, O.