middling Copy link Outline 1. mĕdiocris, e2. mŏdĭcus3. mĕdius (rare in this sense) • middling: 1. mĕdiocris, e: m. poets, m. poetae, Hor. A. P. 373. 2. mŏdĭcus: a person of m. stature, m. homo, Plin. 14, 1, 3 § 12: of m. (average) strength, modicus virium, Vell. 1, 12. 3. mĕdius (rare in this sense): in eloquence, m., eloquentia medius, Vell. 2, 29: m. fidelity, m. fides, id. 2, 67. Phr.: he was of m. height, statura erat nec brevi nec quae justam excederet, cf. Suet. Aug. 79, fin.; Tib. 68.