I.thinness, meagreness, weakness, poorness (class.): “aculei apum,” Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 3: “foliorum,” id. 24, 19, 118, § 178: “soli,” Col. 18, 16, 6: “femineae vocis,” Quint. 1, 11, 1; cf. id. 11, 3, 19: “quarundam litterarum (opp. pinguitudo),” id. 1, 11, 4 —
II. Transf., of speech, etc.: “in dicendo (opp. ubertatem et copiam),” Cic. de Or. 1, 12, 50; cf. id. Brut. 82, 284.