abjectus (flung away as worthless, hence (1) worthless, low, (2) dispirited); demissus (beaten down; of one who has lost his spirit); summissus (subjected, hence submissive, servile, low-minded); humilis (low, opposed to altus); illiberalis (unlike a free man; ungentlemanly, sordid). Videndum est ne quid humile, summissum, molle, effeminatum, fractum, abjectumque faciamus (Cic., Cat., 2, 1). (The words are found in this connection and order), contemtus et abjectus: perculsus et abjectus (in despair). Abject poverty, gravissima paupertas; summa egestas; paupertas vel potius egestas ac mendicitas (Cic., Parad., 6, 1, quite at the end). Abject flattery, summissa adulatio (Quint., 11, 1, 30). Vid. CONTEMPTIBLE, VILE.