Indoles, in viris est fignum præsentis virtutis. Cic. Omnes in quibus est virtutis indoles. All in whome is any token of vertue.Fac fuisse in isto C. Lælij, M. Catonis materiam atque indolem. Cic.Put the case be was of as good towardnes naturally as Lælius, &c.Specimen indolis dare. Plin iun. To shew some token or exãple of towardnes to bertue.Lætæ indolis adolelcens. Gel. A youg man of a cheereful and towarde nature.Noni indolem nostri ingenij, citò erit parata nauis.Plaut.I knowe the nature of out witte.Tanta indoles in Lauinia erat.Liui.Lauinia was of so good a nature: of so bertuous disposition was Lauinia.Indoles Romana.Liu.The hart and stomacke of. Cum hac indole virtutum ac vitiorum sub Hasdrubale meruit.Liu.He was souldier dnder Haorubal shewing these tokens both of bertue and bice.Segnis indoles. Tac. Socrates proxime videtur accedere ad laconicam indolem.To resemble the baine of the Laredemonians.Equorum indoles.The rase of horses.Fructuum indoles.The terrage, berdure, or sent of fruites. Indolem frugÛ & seminum conseruare.Liu.To keepe % nature of the graine and sede that it cõmeth of, & not to alter.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ind-ŏles, is, f. [indu = in-olesco; indoles, incrementum, industria, Paul. ex Fest. p. 106 Müll.], an inborn or native quality, natural quality, nature (class.; cf. ingenium). I. In gen.: quae indoles in savio est!Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 10: frugum pecudum, Liv 38, 17, 10: arborum, Gell. 12, 1, 16.— II. In partic., native quality, natural abilities of men, talents, genius, disposition: adulescentes bonā indole praediti, Cic. de Sen. 8, 26: virtutis, id. Off. 3, 4, 16; cf.: virtutum atque vitiorum, Liv. 21, 4 fin.: major ad virtutem, Cic. Or. 13, 41: segnis, Tac. A. 12, 26: praeclara, id. H. 1, 15: adulescens laetae indolis, Gell. 19, 9, 1: gener ob altam indolem adscitus, Liv. 21, 2, 4.—In plur.: bonae animi indoles, Gell. 19, 12, 5.