Commóditas, pen. cor. commoditâtis. Cic.Commoditie. vtilitie: prosite: aptnesse: conuenientuesse: handsomnesse.Orationis commoditas Author ad Heren.Fitnesse.Vitæ commoditas iucunditásque.Cic.Handsomnesse.Commoditas prosperitásque vitæ.Cic.In occasione commoditas ad faciendum idonea.Cic. Commoditas. Ter. Prosite, &c.Quor commoditates, vide. Ter. Consider, how many commodities. Externæ commoditates. Cic.Commoditas hominis. Ter. Magnam mihi iniecit sua commoditate curam. With his curteysie and gentlentsse.Creare alicui commoditatem.Plaut.To worke one commoditie.Cómmodo cómmodas, pen cor. commodâre. Cic.To do good to: to shew prosite and commoditie: to do plealure to. Also to lende.Publicè commodare.Cic.To profite or do good to.Commodare alicui in re aliqua. Ci. To help one in a thing: to shew pleasure to.Commodatus stomacho succus Plin.Good and prositable to the stomacke. Stirpium natura sicse commodat. Colum. Doth so bende it selfe.Omnibus in rebus se alicui commodare.Cic.To shew himselfe ready to pleasure one in any thing he can.Commodare capillum.Plaut.To kembe his bushe: to trim his head. Commodare.Cic.To lende.Commodare argentum & triticum.Plaut.Aurum alicui commodare.Cic.To lende golde. Aurem commodare alicui.Ouid.To hearken to: to giue eare.Aurem patientem commodare culturæ. Horat. Paciently to heare vertuous instructions.Iras commodare alicui. Statius. To be angry or displeased with.Commoda loquelam iam tuam.Plaut.Speake to vs.Commodare operam suam alicui, pro luuare opera.Plin. iun.To helpe: to lende ones hande as we say.Scelera commodare. Sen. To do a mischieuous acte for ones sake.Seueritatem peccatis magnis commodare. Tac. To punishe sharpely great offences.Veniam paruis peccatis commodare. Tac. To pardon.Commodatárius.He that taketh of lone: he that boroweth: he to whome any thing is lent.
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commŏdĭtas, ātis, f. [commodus]. I.Due measure, just proportion, symmetry (so very rare): commoditas et aequitas membrorum, Suet. Aug. 79.—B. Of discourse, fitness, a suitable oratorical expression, Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 9; id. Inv. 1, 2, 3; corresp. to commode dicere, Auct. Her. 1, 1, 1.—II. (Acc. to commodus, II.) Easy, unrestrained, free action: corporis aliqua commoditas non naturā data, sed studio et industriā parta, i. e.
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, Cic. Inv. 1, 25, 36.—2.Convenience, ease: id, ob commoditatem itineris ponte sublicio... conjungi urbi placuit, Liv. 1, 33, 6.—B. Of things, fitness, convenience, a fit occasion, advantage, benefit (class.): commoditatis omnes articulos scio, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 31: in loco opportunitas, in occasione commoditas ad faciendum idonea (consideranda est), Cic. Inv. 2, 12, 40; id. Off. 1, 39, 138; Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 94; Ter. And. 3, 3, 37: o Fors Fortuna, quantis commoditatibus hunc onerastis diem!id. Phorm. 5, 6, 1: plurimas et maximas commoditates amicitia continet, Cic. Lael. 7, 23; cf. id. N. D. 3, 36, 86; id. Fin. 4, 12, 29: percipere fructum aut commoditatem ex re, id. Off. 2, 4, 14: cum commoditas juvaret, Liv. 4, 60, 2.—2. Of persons, pleasantness, complaisance, courteousness, forbearance, lenity (only ante-class. and in Ov.): vir lepidissime, Cumulate commoditate, Plaut. Mil. 4, 9, 6; Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 76: patris, Poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73: viri, Ov. H. 17, 176; 16, 310.—b.Meton. in Plaut.: commoditas mea, as a term of endearment, Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 8; id. Men. 1, 2, 28; id. Poen. 1, 3, 12.