I.small, thin, slender, lank, meagre, poor, feeble (class.; “syn.: tenuis, gracilis, macer): exile et exiguum et vietum cor,” Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37; cf.: “jecur horridum et exile,” id. ib. 2, 13, 30: “femur (opp. tumentes surae),” Hor. Epod. 8, 10: “artus,” Ov. Pont. 1, 10, 27: “folia,” Plin. 24, 6, 20, § 29: “quod solum tam exile et macrum est, quod, etc.,” thin, poor, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 67: “ager,” Col. 1, 4, 3; cf.: “Arisbe glebis,” Luc. 3, 204: “exilis domus est, ubi non et multa supersunt, etc.,” poor, wretched, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 45: “domus Plutonia,” i. e. cheerless, id. C. 1, 4, 17 (cf.: “domus plena,” id. ib. 2, 12, 24): “hereditas (with parva),” Plin. Pan. 40, 1: “via,” short, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 86.—
II. Transf.
A. In gen., meagre, dry, inadequate, etc.: “genus sermonis exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,” meagre, dry, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159; “so of speech,” id. Fin. 4, 3, 7; id. de Or. 2, 77, 315; 1, 18, 83; Quint. 8, 3, 56 (opp. tumida); cf. of speech: “pro pressis exiles,” id. 10, 2, 16: “vox (opp. plena),” id. 11, 3, 15; ib. 13: “argumentis admodum exilibus niti,” Gell. 14, 2, 4.—
B. Void, free.—With gen.: “exilis atque inanis aegritudinum,” Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 21.—Comp.: “caro prunorum,” Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 43: “vox feminis quam maribus (opp. gravior),” id. 11, 51, 112, § 269: vox in senecta, ib. § 270.—Sup. seems not to occur.—Hence, adv.: exīlĭter , thinly, meagrely, feebly, dryly: “nolo verba exiliter exanimata exire,” feebly, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41: “annales sane exiliter scripti,” id. Brut. 27, 106: “disputare (with jejune),” id. de Or. 1, 11, 50.—Comp.: “exilius dicere de aliqua re,” more sparingly, briefly, Varr. L. L. 5, § 2 Müll.—Sup. seems not to occur.
