somniculosus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

somnĭcŭlōsus, a, um, adj. [somnus], full of sleep, i. e.

I Pass. , inclined to sleep , drowsy , dozy , sleepy , sluggish , slothful (rare but class.; cf. sopitus): quae vitia non sunt senectutis, sed inertis, ignavae, somniculosae senectutis, Cic. Sen. 11, 36: villicus, Col. 11, 1, 13: genus mancipiorum (with socors), id. 1, 8, 2: glires, Mart. 3, 58, 36: Etesiae, Sen. Q. N. 5, 11, 1.—

II Act. , making sleepy , drowsy , or sluggish : aspis, i. e. causing torpor or numbness , palsying , deadly (cf. somnifer and somnificus), Cinna ap. Gell. 9, 12, 12; Laber. ap. Non. 172, 30 (Com. Fragm. 86 Rib.).—Adv.: somnĭ-cŭlōsē (acc. to I.), sleepily , lazily , sluggishly : persequi eri imperia, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 75: agere aliquid, id. Capt. 2, 1, 31.

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