I.on the surface, on the outside, slightly.
I. Lit. (post-Aug. and very rare): “radicem summatim eradere,” Col. 12, 48, 1: “eruere radices,” id. Arb. 6, 2: “ablaqueare vitem,” id. ib. 10, 5.—
II. Trop., slightly, summarily, cursorily, briefly, compendiously, etc. (class.): summatim rescribere paucis, Lucil. ap. Non. 296, 5: “de re pecuariā breviter ac summatim percurram,” Varr. R. R. 2, praef. § “7: aliquid summatim perscribere,” Cic. Att. 5, 16, 1: “aliquid cognoscere,” id. Fam. 10, 28, 3: “summatim breviterque componere,” Suet. Tib. 61: “summatim et uno tantummodo versiculo leviter attingit Vergilius,” Col. 9, 2, 3: “(animal) constitutionem suam crasse intellegit et summatim et obscure,” Sen. Ep. 121, 12: “aliquid attingere,” Quint. 10, 1, 44: “poëticam summatim attigit,” slightly, Suet. Aug. 85; id. Tib. 61: summatim aestimandum judici, an bonā fide imploretur judicium, Dig 5, 3, 7 med.
