brief (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. brĕvis, e2. angustus • brief (adj.).: 1. brĕvis, e: b. enjoyment, b. fructus, Lucr.: a b. narrative, b. narratio, Cic. I strive to be b., I become obscure, b. esse laboro, obscurus fio, Hor. 2. angustus: used by Cic. as antithesis to dilatatus, i. e. expanded, diffuse: v. COMPRESSED, concise, terse. Phr.: I will be very b. with you, compendi verba multa faciam tibi, Pl.: to be brief (as parenthetical clause), ne longum sit, Cic.; ne longum faciam, Hor.; ne multa or ne multis, Cic.; quid quaeris, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 8.