nervous Copy link Outline I. Full of sinewy vigourII. Having much nervous susceptibility • nervous: I. Full of sinewy vigour: nervōsus: Cic. Br. 31, fin. (quis Aristotele nervosior?): or expr. by nervi, orum: v. nerve (II.). II. Having much nervous susceptibility: Phr.: to feel extremely n. and shaky, tota mente atque omnibus artubus contremiscere, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: in sim. sense, trepidare (to be in an agitated state): cf. Pl. Cas. 2, 7, 9, ut ille trepidabat, ut festinabat miser! (v. to tremble; agitated): of a n. temperament, *ingenio nimis trepido atque anxio: qui facilius quam opus est animo commoveri et trepidare solet.