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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- ignāvĭa, ae, f. [id.], inactivity, laziness, idleness, sloth, listlessness, cowardice, worthlessness (syn.: socordia, desidia, inertia, pigritia, segnities; opp.: fortitudo, alacritas). I. Lit. (class.):
dare argentum adulescenti, qui exaedificaret suam incohatam ignaviam
, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 95: venit mihi ignavia; ea mihi tempestas fuit; mi adventu suo grandinem imbremque attulit
, id. Most. 1, 2, 57 Lorenz ad loc.: contraria fortitudini ignavia
, Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 165; so opp. fortitudo
, id. Cat. 2, 11, 25: inertiam, ignaviam, desidiam, luxuriam (adversariorum) proferre
, Auct. Her. 1, 5, 8: timiditas et ignavia
, Cic. Tusc. 3, 7, 14: ignaviam suam tenebrarum ac parietum custodiis tegere
, id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21: socordiae sese atque ignaviae tradere
, Sall. C. 52; so with socordia
, id. ib. 58, 4: per luxum atque ignaviam aetatem agere
, id. J. 2, 4: quod istic (= in te) cum ignavia est scelus
, Liv. 1, 47, 3: quae tanta animis ignavia venit?
Verg. A. 11, 733: copia (cibi) ignaviam affert
, Plin. 11, 14, 14, 35: fumo crebriore et ignavia earum (apium) excitatur ad opera
, id. 11, 16, 15, 45: ignavia corpus hebetat, labor firmat
, Cels. 1, 1.—Prov.: ignaviam necessitas acuit
, Curt. 5, 4, 31.— II. Transf., of things: odoris
, i. e. weakness
, Plin. 12, 25, 54, 119.
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