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diligentia

carefulness

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Cato 1 · 23.36/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 7 · 16.12/10k
Atticus 5 · 14.14/10k
Antoninus Pius 3 · 13.37/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 4 · 6.88/10k
In L. Catilinam 8 · 6.37/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Pro L. Murena 6 · 5.69/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 2 · 5.64/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 10 · 5.45/10k

Densest 12 of 112 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. diligentia — de Vaan

diligentia 'carefulness' (P1.+), dilectus, -us 'recruitment, selection' (Varro+), eligere 'to select' (P1.+), electilis 'of special quality' (P1.+), elegans 'careful, delicate' (PL+), — [de Vaan, s.v. diligentia, p. 346]

2. dīlĭgentĭa — Lewis & Short

dīlĭgentĭa, ae, f.diligens,

I carefulness, attentiveness, earnestness, diligence (freq. and class.; cf.: labor, aerumna, opera, industria, assiduitas, sedulitas, studium, cura).

I In gen.: reliqua sunt in cura, attentione animi, cogitatione, vigilantia, assiduitate, labore; complectar uno verbo, quo saepe jam usi sumus, diligentia, qua una virtute omnes virtutes reliquae continentur, Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 150 (v. the whole chapter in connection).

(a) With praepp.: pro mea summa in re publica diligentia, Cic. Mur. 40, 86: in controversia, id. Att. 2, 15, 4: in verbis, Quint. 4, 2, 117: diligentia tua in retractandis operibus, Plin. Ep. 9, 35, 2: circa proprietatem, Quint. 8, 3, 87: circa istum lacum, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 62: erga pecuniam alienam, Tac. A. 4, 20: diligentiam adhibere ad rem, Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 3: in rem, id. ib. 16, 6, 1; 16, 9, 4; cf. id. ib. 16, 4, 4.—

(b) Absol., Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 6; id. Rud. 3, 5, 40; Ter. Hec. 2, 2, 21; Cic. Planc. 4, 9; id. Att. 2, 15 fin.; id. de Or. 1, 61, 260; id. Rep. 1, 22 fin.; id. Lael. 16, 60 et saep.; Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 4; 3, 20, 1 et saep.: obscura, Ter. And. prol. 21; cf. inanis, Quint. 5, 11, 30: nimium sollicita, id. 3, 11, 22; 12, 1, 6: sinistra, Plin. Ep. 7, 28 fin.—

(g) Rarely with gen.: sacrorum, the care of, etc., Cic. Rep. 2, 14; cf.: dignitatis commoditatisque, id. Off. 1, 39: mandatorum tuorum, id. Top. 1 fin.: tenuis illa divisionis, Quint. 4, 5, 6: nostri, i. e. affection for us, Symm. Ep. 1, 41: Ecclesiae Dei, Vulg. 1 Tim. 3, 5.—

II In partic., carefulness in household affairs, i. e. economy, frugality, Cic. Off. 2, 24 fin.; Auct. Her. 4, 22, 25; Suet. Galb. 12 fin.— Plur. (very rare): maritorum inefficaces diligentiae, precautions, App. M. 9, p. 224, 17.

In the wild

diligentiae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.6.8
diligentiam Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.28.3
diligentia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.124.22
diligentiam Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.3.7
diligentia Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.190
diligentia Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 4

6 of 528 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. diligentia (scan p. 346; entry #888).

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