1. dēsĭdĭa — Lewis & Short
dēsĭdĭa, ae, f.desideo,
I a sitting long, remaining in a place.
I Prop. (rare), Prop. 1, 15, 6.—
II A sitting idle, idleness, inactivity, slothfulness (class.;
for syn. cf.: inertia, languor, otium, pax, feriae, justitium, dies fasti, etc., and v. deses): in portum confugere non inertiae neque desidiae,Cic. Brut. 2, 8;
so with inertia,id. Sest. 10, 22;
with languor,id. Off. 1, 34, 123; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78;
with socordia,Sall. C. 4, 1;
with segnities,Suet. Galb. 9 et saep.;
opp. industria,Cic. Sest. 48 fin.;
opp. agentes,Ov. R. Am. 149 et saep.:
corde expelle desidiam tuo,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24: latrocinia desidiae minuendae causa fieri, * Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 6:
horridus alter (ductor apium) desidiā,Verg. G. 4, 94:
vitanda est improba Siren, Desidia,Hor. S. 2, 3, 15 et saep.—In plur., Lucr. 5, 48; cf.:
vobis desidiae cordi,Verg. A. 9, 615.—
B Of an inanimate subject:
ager post longam desidiam laetas segetes affert,lying fallow, Col. 2, 17, 3.