Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
John C. Rolfe, Ed.

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[p. 191] Now, that no one may have to search for an example of suspiciosus, which I mentioned above, and of formidulosus in its less usual sense, Marcus Cato, On the properly of Florius, used suspiciosus as follows: ¹ “But except in the case of one who practised public prostitution, or had hired himself out to a procurer, even though he had been ill-famed and suspected suspiciousus, they decided that it was unlawful to use force against the person of a freeman.” For in this passage Cato uses suspicious in the sense of “suspected,” not that of “suspecting.” Sallust too in the (Cailine uses formidulosus of one who is feared, in this passage: ² “To such men consequently no labour was unfamiliar, no region too rough or too steep, no armed foeman to be dreaded (formidulosus).”

Gaius Calvus also in his poems uses laboriosus, not in the ordinary sense of “one who toils,” but of that on which labour is spent, saying: ³

The hard and toilsome (laboriosum) country he will
shun.

In the same way Laberius also in the Sisters says: ⁴

By Castor! sleepy (somniculosum) wine!

and Cinna in his poems: ⁵

As Punic Psyllus doth ⁶ the sleepy (somniculosam) asp. ⁷

Metus also and iniuria, and some other words of the kind. may be used in this double sense; for metus hostium, “fear of the enemy,” is a correct expression