I.of great weight, weighty, heavy, ponderous.
I. Lit.: “compedes,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 64: “frumentum,” Varr. R. R. 1, 52 fin.: “verbera,” Val. Max. 1, 8 fin.—Comp.: “lana ponderosior,” Varr. R. R. 2, 11; Plin. 21, 17, 67, § 107.—Sup.: “ponderosissimi lapides,” Plin. 36, 19, 30, § 138.—
II. Trop.: “ponderosa epistola,” weighty, significant, Cic. Att. 2, 11, 1: “vox,” weighty, imposing, Val. Max. 6, 4, 1 ext.