I.slight, trifling, trivial (ante-class.): “sublesta antiqui dicebant infirma et tenuia,” Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 20: fides sublestior, id est, infirmior. Idem in Nervolaria vinum ait sublestissimum, quia infirmos faciat vel corpore vel animo, Fest. pp. 294 and 295 Müll.; cf.: “sublestum est leve, frivolum,” Non. 177, 11: “sublestus infirmus, tristis, Gloss. Isid.: fides,” Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 13.
sublestus , a, um, adj. acc. to Döderl. Synon. 2, p. 101 sq., perh. from sublevo; and hence, light,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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