Facílitas, pen cor. facilitâtis, f. g. Terent.Easinesse: gentlenesse: prompinesse: readinesse.Ad omnem comitatem, facilitatem qúe procliuior.Cic.Facilitas sermonis.Cic.Gentlenesse of talke.Abuti immoderatè facilitate alicuius.Cic.Facilitas in audiendo.Cic.Gentlenesse in hearing.Patars facilitatem. Quin. To get a promptnesse or readinesse in speaking.Dignitate principibus panem esse, facilitate parem infimis. Cicero. In courtesie and gentlenesse equall to the lowest.Facultas faculttis.Terent.Cic.Power to doe or speake: habililitie: facultie: vertue, or strength in a thing: Also riches: substance: occasion: opportunitie.Vindictæ nulla facultas.Ouid.I haue no power to reuenge my selfe.Manendi facultas nulla Miloni.Cic. Accidit facultas. Cæsar. Adimere facultatem aliquid faciendi.Cic. Vide ADIMO. Arripere libenter lædendi facultatem. Ci. Vide ARRIPIO. Facultatem dare eligendi.Plin. iun.Cic.To giue licence to choose.Dare facultatem omnibus sui irridendi. Ci. To giue al men occasion to mocke him.Eripere facultatem dicitur casus. Cice. To take away al vpportunitie.Si res facultatem habitura videatur, vt Alexandriam renere possis.Cic.If you shall seeme to be able to keepe Alexandria.Oblata facultas.Cic.Occasion offered.Prætermittere facultarem alicuius rei.Cic.To omitte or let passe the oportunitie, &c.Si faculras erit.Cic.If we may: if we may haue oportunitie or leisure.Præsentis rui facultas. Plancus Ciceroni. Oportunitie or power to haue your presence or to be with you. Prona facultas. Claud. Facultas eloquentiæ.Cic.Readinesse of eloquence.Facultas ingenij.Cic.A goodnesse or readinesse of witte.Ingenij facultates, consilij. gtatiæ. Cic.Facultas orationis.Cic.Eloquence: readinesse of language: prompinesse to speake of any matter.Dicendi facultas & copia.Cic.Amplior dicendi facultas. Quint. Eximia dicendi facultas. Quint. Singular eloquence: great aptnesse & promptnesse to spcake eloquently of any matter.Maturior facultas dicendi.Cicer.More ripe and perfite eloquence.Si facultatem veré atque honestè iudicandi fide & diligentia mea fecero, Cice.Orandi facultas. Quint. The habilitie to pleade eloquently.Persuaden di non docen di facultas. Quint. Facultatem concedere Cic.Sic stylo facultas continget.Quintil.So a man shall haue a prompte and eloquent stile.Deest facultas.Cic.He lacketh eloquence.Desperata facultas. Quin. Vis & facultas oratoris in quinque partes distributa.Cic.In arte aliqua & facultate excellere.Cic.In any arte or feate to excell.Exercere dicendi facultatem. Quint. To practise the feate of an oratour.Exigere in aliquo eximiam dicendi facultatem. Quint. Facultatem in dicendo habere.Plin. iun.To be eloquent orwellanguaged: to be a good oratour.Largiri copiã & facultatem dicendi alicui dicitur natura. Ci. Perfectus scientia, & omni facultate dicendi. Quint. Petsite in knowledge, and in the whole facultie of an orator.Vtinam esset facultatis meæ. Cice. I woulde to God it were in my power to doe it.Tradere scientiam declamandi, ac facultatem. Quint. Oratorum facultas in his rebus versatur.Cicer.The feate or facultie of an oratour, &c. Facultas pro Copia.Cic.Abundaunce: store.Nummorum facultas.Cic.Store or plentie of money: riches.-facultas operæ Vbi mihi erit, ad te venero.Plaut.When I shall haue leisure, and my businesse wil suffer me. Facultas, Celso accipitur pro eo quod vulgò Virtutem in medicina vocant.Strength: vertue: sorce.Facultas secreta certis in rebus inest. Lucr. A secrete strength. Facultates, in plurali tantùm, sunt Diuitiæ.Cicer.Riches: substance.Facultates & copiæ.Cic. Facultates retum. Cicer.Modicus facultatibus.Of meane substance.Excutere facoltates alicuius. Vlpian. Vide EXCVTIO. Implere facultates equestris ordinis. Pli. iun. Labi facultatibus. Vlpian. To decay in substance: to fall to pouertie.Præparare alij facultates patrimonij sui. Quint. Largè supersunt illi facultates. Pli. iun. He hath yet left great substance.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
făcĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [facilis], easiness, ease, facility in doing any thing. I. In gen. (mostly post-Aug.): haec in bonis rebus, quod alii ad alia bona sunt aptiores, facilitas nominetur, in malis proclivitas,
inclination
,
disposition
, Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28; cf.: aetatis illius (i. e. puerilis) facilitas,
capability
, Quint. 1, 12, 11: audendi facilitas, id. 12, 6, 7: pariendi, Plin. 21, 24, 95, 167: oris, i. e.
easy enunciation
, Quint. 10, 7, 26: corporis,
a tendency to blush
, Sen. Ep. 11: soli,
facility in working
, Plin. 18, 19, 49, 178: picea tonsili facilitate, id. 16, 10, 18, 40: (smaragdi) ad crassitudinem sui facilitate translucida, i. e.
facility in transmitting the rays of light
, id. 37, 5, 16, 63.— II. In partic. A. Of speech, facility or fluency of expression (post-Aug.): Fabianus disputabat expedite magis quam concitate, ut possis dicere, facilitatem esse illam, non celeritatem, Sen. Ep. 40: quae in oratore maxima sunt, ingenium, inventio, vis, facilitas, Quint. 10, 2, 12; 10, 5, 1; 10, 7, 20; 11, 1, 42; Suet. Gramm. 23 al.; cf. Quint. 10, cap. 7.—B. (Acc. to facilis, II. A.) Of character. 1. In a good sense, willingness, readiness, good-nature, courteousness, affability (freq. in Cic.; syn.: lenitas, humanitas): male docet te mea facilitas multa, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 35: si illius comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris, Cic. Mur. 31, 66; cf. id. Lael. 18, 66: pro tua facilitate et humanitate, id. Fam. 13, 24, 2: facilitas in audiendo, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, 21; cf.: facilitas et lenitudo animi, id. Off. 1, 25, 88 Orell. N. cr.: facilitas indulgentiaque, Suet. Caes. 72: facilitate par infimis esse, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41: sermonis, id. Att. 12, 40, 2: magis id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit, id. de Or. 2, 4, 15: actio facilitatem significans, id. ib. 2, 43, 184.—2. In a bad sense, levity, heedlessness, Suet. Claud. 29; cf.: fornicationis, Vulg. Jerem. 3, 9.
