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pĭger , gra, grum (late Lat. collat. form of
I.sup. pigrissimus, Tert. Exhort. ad Castit. 13), adj. piget.
I. Lit., unwilling, reluctant, averse (rare): “gens pigerrima ad militaria opera,Liv. 21, 25, 6: “pigriores ad facinus,id. 39, 13, 11: “pigriores ad cetera munia exequenda,Curt. 6, 9, 29: ad litteras scribendas pigerrimus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 1: “ad conatus magnos piger,Sen. Ira, 3, 3, 1.—
II. Transf.
A. Backward, slow, dull, lazy, indolent, sluggish, inactive (of persons and things).
(β). Absol.: “taurus ipsā mole piger,Juv. 12, 12: “mare pigrum ac prope immotum,” i. e. flowing slowly, sluggish, Tac. G. 45: “pigrum mare et grave,id. Agr. 10: “palus,Ov. P. 4, 10, 61: “annus,that moves lazily, passes slowly, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 21: “bellum,that advances slowly, Ov. F. 2, 727: “campus,unfruitful, Hor. C. 1, 22, 17: “pigriora sunt ista remedia,operate too slowly, Col. 2, 17, 3.—Prov.: “vult et non vult piger,Vulg. Prov. 13, 4: “dicit piger, leo est in viā,id. ib. 26, 13: “pigrā munire castra dolabrā,lazily handled, Juv. 8, 248. —
(γ). With gen. (poet.): “militiae piger et malus,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 124: “pericli,Sil. 14, 264: “serpit Arar per rura pigerrimus undae,id. 15, 504.—
(δ). With inf. (poet.): “piger scribendi ferre laborem,Hor. S. 1, 4, 12 (cf. the opp.: “impiger hostium Vexare turmas,id. C. 4, 14, 22).—Absol.: “pigrum et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare,Tac. G. 14 fin.—Hence, poet. transf.,
2. Sluggish, i. e. that makes sluggish, benumbing: “sopor,Cat. 63, 37: “frigora,Tib. 1, 2, 29: “senecta,id. 1, 10, 40.—
B. Dull, dispirited, dejected, sad (poet. and in postclass. prose): “vultus,Mart. 2, 11, 3: “pigrum aliquem facere,id. 10, 104, 15: “piger tristisque,App. M. 4, p. 157 fin.
C. Dull, unfeeling (poet.): “hinc fessos subrepsit in artus Insidiosa quies et pigrae oblivio vitae,Stat. S. 1, 4, 56 sq.; cf.: “indigna est pigro forma perire situ,Ov. Am. 2, 3, 14.—Hence, adv.: pĭgrē , slowly, sluggishly (post-Aug.): “in servitutem transiens,Sen. Ira, 3, 17: “pigre ac segniter agere,Col. 7, 5, 3.—Comp.: “pigrius,Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; Luc. 5, 434.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (19):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 7.17.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 8.1.1
    • Old Testament, Proverbs, 13.4
    • Horace, Satires, 1.4.12
    • Tacitus, Germania, 14
    • Tacitus, Germania, 45
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 10
    • Lucan, Civil War, 5.434
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.105
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 25
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 13
    • Seneca, de Ira, 3.17
    • Seneca, de Ira, 3.3.1
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 4.10
    • Statius, Silvae, 1.4
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 2.17.3
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 7.5.3
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 6.9.29
    • Ovid, Fasti, 2
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