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|lshtext=<b>căvillor</b>: ātus, 1, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a. [[cavilla]], to [[practise]] jeering or [[mocking]]; or ([[act]].) to [[censure]], [[criticise]]; to satirize in [[jest]] or [[earnest]], to [[jest]], etc. (syn.: jocari, ludere, illudere).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: [[familiariter]] cum ipso [[etiam]] [[cavillor]] ac jocor, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 5; cf. Liv. 39, 13, 3; 39, 42, 9; Suet. Tib. 8: facetissime [[apud]] aliquem, Gell. 5, 5, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: togam ejus praetextam, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 10 (12), 2: hanc artem ut tenuem ac jejunam, Quint. 1, 4, 5: verba patrum, Tac. A. 1, 46: tribunos [[plebis]], Liv. 2, 58, 9: milites Romanos, id. 5, 15, 4 et saep.—Hence, [[cavillatus]] in [[pass]]. [[sense]], App. M. 9, p. 230.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With an objective [[clause]]: in eo et [[etiam]] [[cavillatus]] est, aestate [[grave]] esse aureum [[amiculum]], hieme frigidum, Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83. —*<br /><b>II</b> [[Meton]]., to [[reason]] [[captiously]], to [[use]] sophisms, to [[quibble]], Liv. 3, 20, 4; Plin. 11, 51, 112, § 267; 35, 10, 36, § 85.