ponderosus

pondĕrōsus, a, um, adj. [id.], of great weight, weighty, heavy, ponderous.

I.

Lit.:

compedes,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 64:

frumentum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 52 fin.:

verbera,

Val. Max. 1, 8 fin.—Comp.:

lana ponderosior,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11; Plin. 21, 17, 67, § 107.— Sup.:

ponderosissimi lapides,

Plin. 36, 19, 30, § 138.—

II.

Trop.:

ponderosa epistola,

weighty, significant, Cic. Att. 2, 11, 1:

vox,

weighty, imposing, Val. Max. 6, 4, 1 ext.