I.having black bile, atrabilious, melancholy: “Aristoteles quidem ait, omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 33, 80; cf. id. Div. 1, 37, 81: “insania,” Plin. 22, 25, 64, § 133: “vertigines,” id. 27, 12, 105, § 130.
mĕlanchŏlĭcus , a, um, adj., = μελαγχολικός,