I.very expensive or costly.
I. Of things, that costs much, dear, expensive, sumptuous: “ager,” Cato, R. R. 1, 6: “cenae,” Cic. Fam. 9, 23 fin.: “hostia,” Hor. C. 3, 23, 18: “bellum,” Liv. 45, 3: “tutela,” Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 4: “dignitas,” id. ib. 2, 4, 3: “substructiones,” id. ib.— Comp.: “ludi sumptuosiores,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 6: “cicercula,” Col. 7, 3, 22.—Sup.: “portum operis sumptuosissimi fecit,” Suet. Ner. 9 fin.—
II. Of persons, spending much, lavish, wasteful, extravagant, Plaut. Merc. 4, 2, 2: “mulier,” Ter. Heaut. 2, 1, 15: “domus,” id. Ad. 4, 7, 42: “aliquis,” Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 3: “homo,” Cic. de Or. 2, 31, 135; id. Par. 6, 3, 49; Quint. 5, 10, 48: “in libidines,” Suet. Caes. 50: “non ego sumptuosus sum, sed urbs ipsa magnas impensas exigit,” Sen. Ep. 50, 3.—Adv.: sumptŭōsē , expensively, sumptuously: “convivia lauta sumptuose facere,” Cat. 47, 5; Suet. Claud. 16 fin.—Comp., Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 6: “se sumptuosius jactare,” Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 20: “equos et canes emere sumptuosius,” id. ib. 10, 39 (48), 2; Plin. Ep. 9, 12.
