LIGHTLY Copy link • LIGHTLYNot heavily, leviter (e.g., cadere). figuratively, Slightly, leviter (e.g., lightly wounded); leviter saucius or vulneratus. To regard anything lightly, aliquid leve habere, aliquid in levi habere (to consider as trifling; the latter is more distinct, and although only in Tac., Ann., 3, 54, 4, and Hist., 2, 21, 2, certainly classical); aliquid negligere (not to regard): to esteem lightly, parvi ducere; nihil curare. Not clumsily or awkwardly, velociter. To dance lightly, membra molliter movere (Hor., Sat., 1, 9, 25).