gracilitas

grăcĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [gracilis], slenderness, thinness, leanness, meagreness.

I.

Lit. (class.;

syn.: macies, subtilitas): erat eo tempore in nobis summa gracilitas et infirmitas corporis,

Cic. Brut. 91, 313:

cervicis et crurum,

Suet. Calig. 50:

crurum,

id. ib. 3; id. Dom. 18:

digitalis (vitis),

Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 40; cf.:

papyrum in gracilitatem fastigatum,

id. 13, 11, 22, § 71.— Plur.:

habet certos sui studiosos (Lysias), qui non tam habitus corporis opimos, quam gracilitates consectentur,

Cic. Brut. 16, 64.—

II.

Trop., of style, simplicity, plainness, want of ornament (post-Aug.):

quid Periclea? similemne credimus Lysiacae gracilitati?

Quint. 12, 10, 24; cf.:

exempla in Latina lingua M. Varro esse dicit ubertatis Pacuvium, gracilitatis Lucilium, mediocritatis Terentium,

Gell. 7, 14, 6 (v. the whole 14th chap.):

pressa illa narrationis,

Quint. 4, 3, 2; 1, 9, 2.