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evidentia

evidentia · f

clearness

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What it meant

ēvĭdentĭa — Lewis & Short

ēvĭdentĭa, ae, f.evidens,

I clearness, distinctness.—In rhet. lang., clearness, perspicuity; used by Cicero along with perspicuitas, as a transl. of e)na/rgeia. Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; cf. Quint. 6, 2, 32; 4, 2, 63; 9, 2, 40.—
II A proof: magna suae ostensionis, of his own manifestation, Vulg. 2 Macc. 3, 24.

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