pensĭlis, e, adj. [pendeo], hanging, hanging down, pendent, pensile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. pendulus).
I Lit.: restim volo mihi emere, qui me faciam pensilem, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 86: vehetur pensilibus plumis, i. e. in a bed , Juv. 1, 159: lychnuchi, Plin. 34, 3, 8, § 14: uva, which are hung up to be preserved during the winter , Hor. S. 2, 2, 121; cf. Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 15; in a double sense, alluding to the hanging of one's self, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 99: libertas pensilis, Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 70.—
B Subst.: pensĭlĭa , ĭum, n.
1 Fruit hung up to be preserved : pensilia, ut uvae, mala, et sorba, Varr. R. R. 1, 68; 1, 59, 3.—
2 (Sc. membra) = penis: pulcre pensilibus peculiati, Auct. Priap. 53.—
II In archit., supported on arches , hanging , pensile : fabrica, Col. 1, 6, 16: horreum, id. 12, 50, 3: ambulatio, Plin. 36, 13, 18, § 83: urbs, id. 36, 15, 24, § 104: horti, hanging gardens , id. 36, 14, 20, § 94; Curt. 5, 1, 32: balneae, shower-baths or vapor-baths , Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; Val. Max. 9, 1, 1; Macr. S. 2, 11, 3: tribus, on movable seats (in the theatre), Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 119.