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beneficentia

beneficentia · f

the quality of

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Where it lives

De Officiis 9 · 2.66/10k
De Divinatione 3 · 1.09/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

bĕnĕfĭcentĭa — Lewis & Short

bĕnĕfĭcentĭa, ae, f.from beneficus, like magnificentia, munificentia, from magnificus, munificus; cf. Beier and Gernh. upon Cic. Off. 1, 7, 20,

I the quality of beneficus, kindness, beneficence, an honorable and kind treatment of others (opp. maleficentia, Lact. Ira Dei, 1, 1; several times in the philos. writings of Cic.; elsewh. rare): quid praestantius bonitate et beneficentiā? Cic. N.D. 1, 43, 121: beneficentia, quam eandem vel benignitatem vel liberalitatem appellari licet, id. Off. 1, 7, 20; 1, 14, 42 sq.; 2, 15, 52 and 53: comitas ac beneficentia, id. de Or. 2, 84, 343: uti beneficentiā adversus supplices, Tac. A. 12, 20: beneficentia augebat ornabatque subjectos, Sen. Ep. 90, 5; Vulg. Heb. 13, 16.

In the wild

beneficentia Cicero, De Divinatione 2.126
beneficentiae Cicero, De Officiis 2.32.p1
beneficentia Tacitus, Annales 12.p20
beneficentia Cicero, De Officiis 2.52
beneficentia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.5
beneficentia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.8.13

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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