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aequalitas

aequalitas · f

equality

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

aequālĭtas — Lewis & Short

aequālĭtas, ātis, f.aequalis,

I equality, similarity, uniformity (syn.: similitudo, planities, aequitas).
I In gen.: similitudo aequalitasque verborum, Cic. Part. Or 6: fraterna, id. Lig. 12; Vulg. 2 Cor. 8, 13, 14.—
II In Tac. freq. of political equality, = i)sotimi/a: omnes exutā aequalitate jussa principis aspectare, Tac. A. 1, 4; 3, 74; cf. id. ib. 26, and id. H. 2, 38.—
III Of equality in age (cf. aequalis, II.): et aequalitas vestra et pares honorum gradus, Cic Brut. 42.—
IV The equality, evenness of a place: maris, i. e. mare tranquillum, a calm, galh/nh, Sen, Ep. 53: (Oesypum) carnes excrescentes ad aequalitatem reducit, Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113.

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