Pestilentia, pestilentiæ, fœ. gen. Idem. Plin. The pestilence: the plague: the foule euil.Senes minimè sentire pestilentiam. Plin. Pestilentia Solis obscuratione contrahitur. Plin. Graui pestilentia conflictari, Cæ.To be vexed with a great plague.Annus infamis pestilentia, Vide INFAMIS.Vrentis pestilentiæ malum.Liu.Oratio plena veneni & pestilentiæ. Catul. Talke ful of polson and pestilence. Abijt pestilentia, Vide ABEO.Afferre pestilentiam, Vide AFFERO.Coorta pestilentia.Liu.The pestilence begun.Pestilentiam facere valet quod egerit sus ægra. Colu. The dung of a sicke sowe may, cause the plague.Incidit pestilentia granis in vrbÊ. Vide INCIDO, pen cor. Terrere animos pestilentia.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pestĭlentĭa, ae, f. [pestilens], an infectious or contagious disease, a plague, pest, pestilence.I.Lit. (class.): Massilienses gravi pestilentiā conflictati, Caes. B. C. 2, 22; Cic. Off. 2, 5, 16: pestilentia gravis incidit in urbem, Liv. 27, 23: pestilentiae contagia prohibere, Plin. 23, 8, 80, 157; Cels. 1, 10; 2, 1; 3, 7init.—B.Transf., an unwholesome atmosphere, weather, or region (class.): agrorum genus propter pestilentiam vastum atque desertum, Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 70: pestilentiae signa (opp. signa salubritatis), id. Div. 1, 5, 7: pestilentiae possessores, id. Agr. 1, 5, 15.—II.Trop., a plague, pest, pestilence (poet. and in postclass. prose): oratio plena veneni et pestilentiae, Cat. 44, 11: cathedra pestilentiae,
the seat of the scornful
, Vulg. Psa. 1, 1.— In plur.: animorum labes et pestilentiae, Gell. 1, 2, 4.