instrenuus

Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523

Latin > English

instrenuus instrenua, instrenuum ADJ :: inactive, lazy

in-strēnŭus: a, um, adj.,
I not brisk, inactive, sluggish, spiritless (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): homo, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 23: animus, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 68: dux, Suet. Vesp. 4. — Adv.: instrēnŭē, without spirit: non instrenue moriens, Just. 17, 2, 1.

īnstrēnŭus,¹⁶ a, um, nonchalant, mou : Pl. Most. 106 ; Ter. Haut. 120 || qui est sans courage : Suet. Vesp. 4.

īn-strēnuus, a, um, nicht betriebsam, nichts unternehmend, lässig, homo, Plaut. most. 106: animus non instr., Ter. heaut. 120. – v. Kriegern = unentschlossen, feig, non instr. dux, mutiger, Suet. Vesp. 4, 5.