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|lshtext=<b>segnis</b>: e, adj. [[commonly]] referred to [[sequor]], [[that]] follows [[after]], creeps [[after]],<br /><b>I</b> [[slow]], [[tardy]], [[slack]], [[dilatory]], [[lingering]], [[sluggish]], [[inactive]], unenergetic, [[lazy]] (in [[posit]]. not freq. [[till]] [[after]] the Aug. per., esp. in the histt.; in Cic. [[only]] comp., [[except]] in a [[passage]] from Non.; in Caes. [[only]] [[once]] in comp.; syn.: [[deses]], [[ignavus]], [[desidiosus]], [[piger]]): (servi) [[quia]] tardius irent Propter [[onus]] segnes, Hor. S. 2, 3, 102; cf.: tardum et [[segne]], Quint. 9, 4, 83: [[animus]] (opp. [[mobilis]]), Trogas ap. Plin. 11, 52, 114, § 275: [[puer]] [[segnis]] et jacens, Quint. 1, 3, 2: [[segnis]] inersque vocer, Tib. 1, 1, 58: segniores castigat [[atque]] incitat, * Caes. B. C. 1, 3; cf.: laudando promptos et castigando segnes, Tac. Agr. 21: segnes et pavidos, id. A. 16, 25: [[multa]] quae segnibus ardua videantur, id. ib. 15, 59: segnior esse, Cic. Att. 8, 11, B fin.: [[bonus]] segnior [[fit]] ubi neglegas, Sall. J. 31, 28: ne segniores viris feminas habere viderentur, Just. 2, 4, 27: [[equus]] aut morbo [[gravis]] aut segnior annis, Verg. G. 3, 95 et saep.: in quo tua me provocavit [[oratio]], mea consecuta est [[segnis]] (segnius?), Cic. ap. Non. 33, 23: [[obsidio]], Liv. 5, 46; 10, 10: [[bellum]], id. 10, 12: [[pugna]], id. 10, 36: [[navigatio]], id. 30, 10: [[militia]], id. 26, 21: [[mora]], id. 25, 8 fin.; 34, 9; Ov. M. 3, 563: [[voluptas]], id. R. Am. 404: [[otium]], Tac. A. 14, 39 fin.; id. H. 4, 70: [[ingenium]], id. A. 12, 26: [[imperium]], Liv. 25, 14: pes (in the [[race]]), Hor. C. 3, 12, 9: [[Arar]], [[slowly]]-[[flowing]], [[sluggish]], Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 33; cf. aquae, Curt. 8, 9, 18: stellae (Ursa Major and Minor and Boötes), Val. Fl. 1, 484: [[campus]], i. e. [[unfruitful]], Verg. G. 1, 72; cf. [[arvum]], id. ib. 1, 151; Luc. 9, 438: [[metus]], id. 4, 700: [[sopor]], Sen. Herc. Oet. 690: [[alter]] ([[terror]]) [[diutinus]], sed segnior, slower, [[more]] [[lingering]], Liv. 35, 40, 7: segnior [[mors]] (per [[venenum]]), id. 40, 4 fin.— Sup., App. Mag. p. 310, 21.—With a neg.: non segnior [[discordia]], Liv. 2, 43; cf.: nec Sagunti [[oppugnatio]] segnior erat, id. 21, 12: [[haud]] [[illo]] segnior ibat [[Aeneas]], Verg. A. 4, 149; 7, 383; 8, 414.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ad aliquid, [[less]] freq. in aliquā re, in [[aliquam]] rem: segniores [[posthac]] ad imperandum ceteri sint, Cic. Font. 7, 17 (3, 7); so in comp.: ad respondendum, id. Fin. 1, 10, 34: ad persequendum, Nep. Thras. 2, 2: ad laetitiam, Ov. P. 3, 4, 50; 4, 8, 75: ad credendum, Liv. 24, 13 fin.: ad [[alia]] facta, id. 44, 12: [[gnarus]] gentem segnem ad pericula, Tac. A. 14, 23: senatu segniore in exsequendis conatibus, Suet. Claud. 10: non in Venerem segnes nocturnaque bella, Verg. A. 11, 736; Maxim. Eleg. 5, 50. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen. (in Tac.): occasionum [[haud]] [[segnis]], Tac. A. 16, 14: laeti praedā et aliorum segnes, id. ib. 14, 33.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With inf. ([[poet]].): segnes nodum solvere [[Gratiae]], Hor. C. 3, 21, 22; Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 19.—Hence, adv., [[slowly]], [[sluggishly]], [[slothfully]], [[lazily]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; segnĭter: [[segniter]], [[otiose]], [[neglegenter]], [[contumaciter]] omnia agere, Liv. 2, 58; so id. 25, 35; 29, 19; 40, 40; Vell. 2, 69, 2; 2, 87, 1; Tac. A. 11, 26; id. H. 2, 71; Stat. S. 1, 4, 106 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; segnē: [[haud]] [[segne]] id ipsum [[tempus]] consumpserat, Liv. 38, 22: [[nihil]] agendum [[segne]] [[ratus]], Amm. 21, 10.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Comp.: segnius [[atque]] timidius pro re publicā niti, [[Cato]] ap. [[Charis]]. p. 196 P.: segnius socordiusque oppugnare, Liv. 40, 27; 30, 21; Tac. A. 11, 15; 13, 29; id. H. 3, 40; Hor. A. P. 180 al.—Esp. freq. [[with]] the negg. non, [[haud]], [[nihilo]] segnius (for [[which]], in the MSS., [[sequius]] or [[secius]] is freq. interchanged), [[none]] the slower, not the [[less]] [[actively]], [[earnestly]], or [[zealously]], [[with]] the [[same]] [[activity]] or [[earnestness]], [[with]] undiminished [[zeal]]: non [[ideo]] [[tamen]] segnius [[precor]], Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 10; so, non segnius, Plin. 28, 7, 23, § 77: [[haud]] segnius, Ov. M. 11, 534; Luc. 6, 286: nec segnius, Liv. 40, 40: [[neque]] segnius, Tac. A. 6, 13: [[neque]] eo segnius, Suet. Ner. 20: oppidani [[nihilo]] segnius [[bellum]] parare, Sall. J. 75, 10; so, [[nihilo]] segnius, Liv. 2, 47; 6, 38; 7, 18 fin.; 26, 12; 32, 22; 35, 8; Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 5; Nep. Dat. 2, 4.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>c</b> Sup.: nautae torpedinis tactu segnissime torpuerunt, Cassiod. Var. 1, 35.
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