dŏcĭlis, e, adj. [doceo], easily taught, docile.
I Prop. (freq. and class.).— Absol. : belua docilis et humanis moribus assueta, Cic. Rep. 2, 40; id. de Or. 2, 19, 80; Liv. 23, 29; Quint. 2, 9, 3; Hor. C. 3, 11, 1; id. Carm. Sec. 45 et saep.; cf. in the comp. , Quint. 1, 12, 9; 4, 2, 24.—With ad : ad agriculturam, Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 20, 3; id. Tusc. 2, 6; Curt. 8, 31, 16; in the comp. , Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 56.—With abl.: habebant luscinias Graeco atque Latino sermone docilis, Plin. 10, 42, 59, § 120: omnes imitandis turpibus, Juv. 14, 40.—Poet., with gen.: modorum, Hor. C. 4, 6, 43: pravi, id. S. 2, 2, 52: fallendi, skilful , Sil. 3, 233: freni (equus), id. 16, 360; and with inf.: cerva accedere mensis, id. 13, 120.—
II Transf. of things: capilli, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 13: os, id. ib. 3, 344: et bibula chrysocolla, Plin. 33, 5, 26, § 88: hasta relegi et relinqui, Val. Fl. 6, 237: ingenium, Nep. Dion. 1, 2: pavor pascere rumorem, Sil. 4, 8 et saep.— Sup. does not occur.—Adv.: dŏcĭlĭter , with docility , teachably , acc. to Diom. p. 401 P.