bŏnĭtas — Lewis & Short
bŏnĭtas, ātis, f.bonus,
I the good quality of a thing, goodness, excellence (cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 28 Herz.; class., but mostly in prose).
I Of concrete objects:
bonitas praediorum,Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:
agrorum,id. Agr. 2, 16, 41; Caes. B. G. 1, 28:
agri aut oppidi,Cic. Agr. 2, 28, 76:
praediorum,id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20; Dig. 50, 16, 86:
terrae,Lucr. 5, 1247:
soli,Quint. 2, 19, 2:
aquae,Phaedr. 4, 9, 8:
vini,Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 55:
arboris,id. 13, 9, 17, § 61:
gemmarum,id. 37, 8, 37, § 116 al.:
vocis,Cic. Or. 18, 59:
verborum,id. ib. 49, 164:
mutuum eādem bonitate solvatur quā datum est,Dig. 12, 1, 3:
secunda bonitas (amomi),the second quality, Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 48; Dig. 45, 1, 75, § 2.—
II Of abstract objects:
ingenii,Cic. Off. 3, 3, 14:
causae,id. Dom. 22, 57:
naturae,id. Off. 1, 32, 118:
sapientiae,Quint. 5, 10, 75. —
B Esp. freq. of character, good, honest, or friendly conduct; goodness, virtue, integrity, blamelessness:
neque ego nunc de illius bonitate, sed de generi impudentiā disputo,Cic. Agr. 3, 3, 13:
rustici cum fidem alicujus bonitatemque laudant, dignum esse dicunt, quīcum in tenebris mices, id. Off, 3, 19, 77: quae tuae fidei, justitiae bonitatique commendo,id. Fam. 13, 4, 3; id. N. D. 3, 30, 75:
si recte vestram bonitatem atque prudentiam cognovi,id. Quint. 17, 54:
nec justitiae ullus esset nec bonitati locus,id. Fin. 3, 20, 66:
perennis,Ov. Tr. 4, 5, 27:
eam potestatem bonitate retinebat,integrity, Nep. Milt. 8, 3; so id. Timol. 5, 1.—
2 Kindness, friendliness, benevolence, benignity, affability: perpetua naturalis bonitas (kind-heartedness, benevolence), quae nullis casibus neque agitur, neque minuitur, Nep. Att. 9, 1:
te oro per mei te erga bonitatem patris,Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 54; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60:
bonitas et beneficentia,id. ib. 1, 43, 121;
3, 34, 84: homo liberalis et dissolutus et bonitate affluens,id. Rosc. Com. 10, 27:
utrumque incredibile est, et Roscium quicquam per avaritiam appetisse, et Fannium quicquam per bonitatem amisisse,id. ib. 7, 21:
multas hereditates nullā aliā re quam bonitate consecutus est,Nep. Att. 21, 1:
bonitas, humanitas, misericordia,Quint. 5, 1, 22; Tac. H. 1, 52. —
3 Esp., parental love, tenderness:
quid dicam... de bonitate in suos,Cic. Lael. 3, 11:
facit parentes bonitas, non necessitas,Phaedr. 3, 15, 18.