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mĕdĭoxĭmus (mĕdĭoxŭmus ), a, um, adj. superlative of an obsolete mediox for medius.
I. In the middle, middlemost: “medio actum modo,Non. 141, 4: medioximus, μέσος, Gloss. Philox. (anteand post-class.): “medioxumam quam duxit uxorem,Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 67: “ita me di deaeque superi atque inferi et medioxumi,” i. e. holding a middle place between the supernal and infernal deities, id. ib. 2, 1, 35: tertium habent (deorum genus), quos medioximos Romani veteres appellant, quod et sui ratione et loco et potestate diis summis sunt minores, hominum natura profecto majores, between gods and men, App. Dogm. Plat. 1, p. 8: “quidam aras superiorum deorum volunt esse, medioxumorum, id est marinorum, focos, inferorum mundos,” i. e. the sea-gods, between those of heaven and those of Hades, Serv. Verg. A. 3, 134.—Of tutelar deities: hos omnes Graeci δαίμονας dicunt, ἀπὸ τοῦ δαήμονας εἶναι: “Latini medioximos vocitarunt,Mart. Cap. 2, § 154.—
II. Middling, moderate: medioximum mediocre, Paul. ex Fest. p. 123 Müll.—Hence, *adv.: mĕdĭ-oxĭmē (mĕdĭoxŭmē ), moderately, tolerably, Varr. ap. Non. 141, 7.
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