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calliditas

calliditas · f

the being

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Where it lives

De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 2 · 2.04/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

callĭdĭtas — Lewis & Short

callĭdĭtas, ātis, f.callidus,

I the being callidus, in a good or bad sense.

I In a good sense, shrewdness, skill, skilfulness, readiness, aptness (so several times after the Aug. period): calliditas ingenii, Nep. Eum. 1, 3; Ov. F. 3, 380; Plin. 37, 12, 74, § 195; Tac. Agr. 9; Flor. 2, 17, 15; Cic. Har. Resp. 9, 19.—Far more freq. and class.,

II In a bad sense, cunning, craft, slyness, artfulness: scientia, quae est remota ab justitiā, calliditas potius quam sapientia est appellanda, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 63; 3, 32, 113; id. Rosc. Com. 7, 20; id. Har. Resp. 9, 19; id. Or. 39, 137; Quint. 2, 5, 7; 4, 2, 126; Ov. H. 16, 300; 20, 126; Mart. 11, 50, 2 al.—Of stratagem in war, Liv. 42, 47, 7: calliditas ad robur accesserat, Flor. 3, 4, 3.—Trop., of oratorical artifice: genus ejusmodi calliditatis atque calumniae, Cic. Part. Or. 39, 137.—In plur.: servi venere in mentem Syri Calliditates, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 14; Lact. 2, 12, 17.

In the wild

calliditas Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.18.10
calliditate Cicero, De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 19
calliditas Cicero, De Officiis 3.113.p1
calliditati Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.4.2
calliditatis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.4.pr
calliditate Ovid, Epistulae 16.302

6 of 59 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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