exilis

exīlis, e, adj. [ex and ile, ilia; hence, without entrails, i. e. thin, lank, Corss. Ausspr. 2, 1003], small, thin, slender, lank, meagre, poor, feeble (class.;

syn.: tenuis, gracilis, macer): exile et exiguum et vietum cor,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37; cf.:

jecur horridum et exile,

id. ib. 2, 13, 30:

femur (opp. tumentes surae),

Hor. Epod. 8, 10:

artus,

Ov. Pont. 1, 10, 27:

folia,

Plin. 24, 6, 20, § 29:

quod solum tam exile et macrum est, quod, etc.,

thin, poor, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 67:

ager,

Col. 1, 4, 3; cf.:

Arisbe glebis,

Luc. 3, 204:

exilis domus est, ubi non et multa supersunt, etc.,

poor, wretched, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 45:

domus Plutonia,

i. e. cheerless, id. C. 1, 4, 17 (cf.:

domus plena,

id. ib. 2, 12, 24 ):

hereditas (with parva),

Plin. Pan. 40, 1:

via,

short, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 86.—

II.

Transf.

A.

In gen., meagre, dry, inadequate, etc.:

genus sermonis exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,

meagre, dry, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159;

so of speech,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7; id. de Or. 2, 77, 315; 1, 18, 83; Quint. 8, 3, 56 (opp. tumida); cf. of speech:

pro pressis exiles,

id. 10, 2, 16:

vox (opp. plena),

id. 11, 3, 15; ib. 13:

argumentis admodum exilibus niti,

Gell. 14, 2, 4.—

B.

Void, free. —With gen.:

exilis atque inanis aegritudinum,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 21.— Comp.:

caro prunorum,

Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 43:

vox feminis quam maribus (opp. gravior),

id. 11, 51, 112, § 269: vox in senecta, ib. § 270.— Sup. seems not to occur.—Hence, adv.: exīlĭter, thinly, meagrely, feebly, dryly:

nolo verba exiliter exanimata exire,

feebly, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41:

annales sane exiliter scripti,

id. Brut. 27, 106:

disputare (with jejune),

id. de Or. 1, 11, 50.— Comp.:

exilius dicere de aliqua re,

more sparingly, briefly, Varr. L. L. 5, § 2 Müll.— Sup. seems not to occur.