Obscúritas, pen. cor. obscuritâtis. Plin. Darkenes: obscuritie: difficultie: hardenesse: vnnoblenesse or basenesse of birth.Obscuritas & dubitatio.Cic.Obscuritates & ænigmata somniorum.Cic.Latebram obscuritatis adhibere. Cicero. To vse obscuritie as it were a couert to hide the matter.Minus obscuritatis & erroris habent hæc Cic.Inuolutæ naturæ obscuritate causa latet.Cic.Reiecit te libris obscuritas.Cicer.The obscuritie or darkenesse made thee forsake the reading of those bookes.Vitare obscuritatem Quint. Obscuritas.Cic.Basenesse of birth. Propter obscuritatem in hominum ignoratione versatur. Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
obscūrĭtas, ātis, f. [obscurus], a being dark, darkness, obscurity. I.Lit. (perh. only post-Aug.): latebrarum, Tac. H. 3, 11: atra, Plin. 2, 18, 16, 79: visūs,
dimness
, id. 23, 1, 20, 35: oculorum, id. 37, 3, 12, 51. —II.Trop. (class.), obscurity, indistinctness, uncertainty: ut oratio, quae lumen adhibere rebus debet, ea obscuritatem et tenebras afferat, Cic. de Or. 3, 13, 50: Pythagorae, id. Rep. 1, 10, 16: obscuritas fit etiam vet is ab usu remotis, Quint. 8, 2, 12: in eā obscuritate ac dubitatione omnium,
uncertainty
, Cic. Clu. 27, 73: rerum, id. Fin. 2, 5, 15: naturae, id. Div. 1, 18, 35.—In plur.: quo pertinent obscuritates et aenigmata somniorum, Cic. Div. 2, 64, 132: obscuritates non adsignemus culpae scribentium, sed inscientiae non adsequentium, Caecil. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 5: obscuritatibus involutum, Arn. 1, 38.—B. Of rank, obscurity, lowliness, meanness: quorum prima aetas propter humilitatem et obscuritatem, in hominum ignoratione versatur. Cic. Off. 2, 13, 45: sordes et obscuritatem Vitellianarum partium perstringemus, Tac. H. 1, 84: generis, Flor. 3, 1, 13: nec obscuritas inhibuit (Servium Tullium), quamvis matre servā creatum, id. 1, 6, 1.