Health, or sicknesse. Perturbat me lõga & pertinax valetudo Titi Aristonis. Pl. iun. The long and continuall sicknesse, &c. Cura siue Curatio valetudinis. Cic. Firmitas valetudinis. Plin. Genus valetudinis. Cic. The kinde of sicknesse. Grauitas valetudinis. Cic. Imbecillitas valetudinis. Cic. Sicklinesse. Incommodum valetudinis. Cic. Sicknesse. Infirmitas valetudinis. Cic. Sicklinesse. Morbus valetudinis. Plin. Sicknesse. Vitium valetudinis. Cic. Idem. Imbecillus valetudine. Cic. Fessus valetudinibus. Tac. Aduersa valetudo, vide ADVERTO. Bona valetudo. Cic. Good health. Commodior valetudo. Quint. Better health. Dura valetudo. Hor. Imparibilis valetudo. Plin. Incommoda valetudo. Cic. Sicklinesse. Valetudine incommoda fuit. Cic. He was not well at ease: he was sicke or diseased. Infensa valetudo. Tac. Sicknesse. Infirma valetudo. Cic. Weaknesse of bodie: sicklinesse. Erat illo tempore infirma valetudine. Cicer. Hee was then somewhat sickly or ill at ease. Infirma & ægra valetudo. Cic. Ingrauescens valetudo. Vlp. Sichnesse increasing or wating worse and worfe. Integra valetudo, vide INTEGER. Mala valetudo animi. Cic. Sicknesse of minde. Meliorem valetudinem senibus faciunt fici. Pli. Keept olde men in better health. Perdita valetudo, vide PERDO. Tenui valetudine homo. Ci. A weake and sickly man. Amittere valetudinem. Ci. To fal ficke. Confirmata morbo valetudo. Ci. Health recouered after sicknesse. Conslictare iniqua valetudine, vide CONFLIGO. Valetudine nouissima conflict abatur. Pli. iun. Hee lay sicke in his death bed. Consumi longiore valetudine. Quint. To be wasted away with long sicknesse. Dare operam valetudini. Ci. To see to his health. Emergere ex incommoda valetudine. Cice. To recouer or ware whole. It in melius valetudo. Tac. He wareth better and better. Ferre valetudinem. Quint. To abide a sicknesse. Firmare valetudinem. Tac. Fluctuare periculosa valetudine. Va. Max. To linger long in a daungerous ficknesse, sometime wel, sometime il. Grauescebat valetudo Augusti. Tac. Augustus wared sickly. Impeditus valetudine. Quint. Indulgere valetudini, Vide INDVLGEO. Inflantur corpora valetudine. Quin. Inseruire valetudini, Vide INSERVIO. Leuatur aduersa valetudo. Cels. Sicknesse is eased and diminished. Parcere valetudini, Vide PARCO. Præstare secundam valetudinem. Cels. Recolligere se longa valetudine. Plin. To recouer or ware strong after long sicknesse. Seruire valetudini Ci. to haue regard to his health: To doe that is the maintenaunce of his health: to see to his helth. Sustentare valetudinem. Ci. To maintaine his helth. Tentari valetudine aliqua. Ci. To be attached with sicknes. Valetudo oculorum. Cic. Sicknesse of the eyes. Valetudõ calculorum. Plin. The stone. Valetudines. Tac. Valetu dines febrium, Plin. Agues. Valetudo mentis. Suet. Sicknesse of minde.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: optimā valetudine uti, Caes. B. C. 3, 49: valetudine minus commodā uti, id. ib. 3, 62: integra, Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 47: bona, Lucr. 3, 102; Cic. Lael. 6, 20; Quint. 10, 3, 26; Cato, R. R. 141, 3: melior, Plin. 23, 7, 63, 120: commodior, Quint. 6, 3, 77: incommoda, Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1: infirma atque etiam aegra, id. Brut. 48, 180: quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine, id. Sen. 11, 35: adversa, Just. 41, 6: dura, Hor. S. 2, 2, 88: confirmata, Cic. Att. 10, 17, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, 46; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265: ut valetudini tuae diligentissime servias, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, 46: multum interest inter vires et bonam valetudinem, Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. 6.—Plur.: sic caecitas ferri facile possit, si non desint subsidia valetudinum, of different states of health, i. e. whatever they may be, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113.—

B. In partic.

1. A good state or condition, soundness of body, good health, healthfulness (syn.: salus, sanitas): valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4: valetudo (opportuna est), ut dolore careas et muneribus fungare corporis, Cic. Lael. 6, 22: cui Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 10: valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis et observatione, quae res aut prodesse soleant aut obesse, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 86: melior fio valetudine, quam intermissis exercitationibus amiseram, id. Fam. 9, 18, 3: id pecus valetudinis tutissimae est, Col. 7, 22: hoc cibo ... firmitatem valetudinis custodiri, Plin. 20, 5, 20, 42; cf.: Quaque valetudo constat, nunc libera morbis, Nunc oppressa, Manil. 3, 140; cf. also Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265.—

2. A bad state or condition, ill health, sickness, feebleness, infirmity, indisposition (syn.: infirmitas, imbecillitas): curatio valetudinis, Cic. Div. 2, 59, 123: gravitas valetudinis, quā tamen jam paulum videor levari, id. Fam. 6, 2, 1: affectus valetudine, Caes. B. C. 1, 31: gravis auctumnus omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat, id. ib. 3, 2: quodam valetudinis genere tentari, Cic. Att. 11, 23, 1: quod me propter valetudinem tuam ... non vidisses, id. Fam. 4, 1, 1: quod his Nonis in collegio nostro non affuisses, valetudinem causam, non maestitiam fuisse, id. Lael. 2, 8: excusatione te uti valetudinis, id. Pis. 6, 13: quibus (latere, voce) fractis aut imminutis aetate seu valetudine, Quint. 12, 11, 2: medicus quid in quoque valetudinis genere faciendum sit, docebit, id. 7, 10, 10: Blaesus novissimā valetudine conflictabatur, Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 7: major, i. e. morbus comitialis, Just. 13, 2: oculorum, Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 6: calculorum, Plin. 21, 27, 100, 173.—Plur.: medicus regere valetudines principis solitus, Tac. A. 6, 50: valetudinibus fessi, id. H. 3, 2: quod ad febrium valitudines attinet, Plin. 23, 1, 24, 48: graves et periculosas valetudines experiri, Suet. Aug. 81; id. Tib. 11; Vitr. 1, 4.—

II. Trop. (rare but class.), of the mind, health, soundness, sanity: ii sunt constituti quasi malā valetudine animi, sanabiles tamen, Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80: roga bonam mentem, bonam valetudinem animi, deinde tunc corporis, Sen. Ep. 10, 4; cf.: valetudo ei neque corporis neque animi constitit, unsound state of mind, mental infirmity, Suet. Calig. 50.—Rarely without animi: qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur, Cic. Div. 1, 38, 81.—

B. Of style: quos (Lysiae studiosi), valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat, Cic. Brut. 16, 64. —

III. Personified: Valetudo, Health, as a divinity, Mart. Cap. 1, 55.