servile Copy link Outline I. Pertaining to a slaveII. Abject, mean, cringing, fawning1. abjectus (mean-spirited)2. hŭmĭlis (low, grovelling)3. servīlis (rare in this sense)4. vernīlis (also rare)5. servus (v. rare in this sense) • servile: I. Pertaining to a slave: servīlis, e: a s. dress, s. vestis, Cic. Pis. 38, 92: a s. yoke, jugum s., id. Phil. 1, 2, 6: the s. war (war with slaves), s. tumultus, Caes. B. G. 1, 40, ad init.: a s. band (band of slaves), s. manus, Hor. Epod. 4, 4, 19. II. Abject, mean, cringing, fawning: 1. abjectus (mean-spirited): nothing s., nothing mean, nihil a., nihil humile, Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 57: a s. mind, animus a., id. Am. 16, 59: cf. Quint. 11, 1, 13. 2. hŭmĭlis (low, grovelling): what public servant was ever so s., so mean? quis umquam apparitor tam h., tam abjectus? Cic. Phil. 2, 32, 82: a most s. flatterer, humillimus assentator, Vell. 2, 83, init. 3. servīlis (rare in this sense): to invent s. stories, servilia fingere, Tac. A. 16, 2, fin. 4. vernīlis (also rare): to conceal hatred with s. flatteries, odium v. blanditiis velare, Tac. H. 2, 59, med. 5. servus (v. rare in this sense): s. herd of imitators, imitatores servum pecus, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 19.