I.untilled, uncultivated (class.).
I. Lit.: “ager,” Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33: “via, with silvestris,” neglected, id. Brut. 72, 259: “quid incultius oppidis?” id. Prov. Cons. 12, 29: “incultae atque inhabitabiles regiones,” id. N. D. 1, 10, 24: “incultum et derelictum solum,” id. Brut. 4, 16: “caritas annonae ex incultis agris,” Liv. 2, 34, 2.—
II. Transf., undressed, unadorned, unpolished, neglected, rude (mostly poet.): “coma,” uncombed, disordered, Ov. F. 3, 470: “genae,” disfigured, id. H. 8, 64: “homo, ut vita, sic oratione durus, incultus, horridus,” Cic. Brut. 31, 117: “inculta atque rusticana parsimonia,” id. Quint. 30: “indocti incultique,” without education, Sall. C. 2, 8: “homines intonsi et inculti,” Liv. 21, 32, 7: “versus,” unpolished, rude, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 233: “ingenium,” uncultivated, id. ib. 1, 3, 22: “Laestrygones,” i. e. destitute of cultivation, savage, wild, Tib. 4, 1, 59.—Hence, adv.: incultē , in an uncultivated manner, roughly, rudely, uncouthly, inelegantly: “inculte atque horride vivere,” Cic. Quint. 18: “incultius agitare,” Sall. J. 20, 5: “agere,” id. ib. 89, 7: “inculte horrideque dicere,” Cic. Or. 9, 28: “non inculte dicere,” id. Brut. 28.
