Lacke of craft: idlenes: negligÊce: slacknes: lithernes: vitlustines. Inertiæ opponuntur artibus. Cic. Ignorance of artes and liberal knowledge. Laboris inertia. Cic. Lithernes. Mollis inertia. Hor. Tender ydlenesse. Sepulta inertia. Ho. Strenua inertia. Hor. Vnwise or vnskilfull diligence. Accusare inertiam. Cic. Vide ACCVSO. Afferre inertiam. Cic. Quòd si, vt es, cessabis, lacessam: nec tua ignauia mihi etiam inertiam afferet. Shal not make me also siouthfull. Signitiem hominum at que inertiam castigare. Cice. Fuga laboris inertiam coarguit, & desidiam. Cic. Esthewing of paine is a token of slouth fulnesse and idlenesse. Condemeare aliquem inertiæ. Ci. To cõdemne as negligÊt. Nequitiæ & inertiæ se condemnare. Cic.

I. Lit. (rare but class.): animi (spectantur), quemadmodum affecti sint, virtutibus, vitiis; artibus, inertiis, Cic. Part. 10, 35; Petr. 135, 6. —

II. Transf., in gen., inactivity, idleness, laziness (very freq.): inertia atque torpedo, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 2, 6: id largiamur inertiae nostrae, Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 68: castigare segnitiem hominum atque inertiam, id. ib. 1, 41, 185: laboris, aversion to labor, id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24: operis, Liv. 33, 45, 7 al.— In an oxymoron: strenua, Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 28; cf. inquieta, Sen. Tranq. 12, 2.