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firmitas

firmitas · f

firmness

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Where it lives

De Constantia 4 · 7.57/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
De Architectura 19 · 3.29/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Lucullus 3 · 1.67/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 4 · 1.63/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

firmĭtas — Lewis & Short

firmĭtas, ātis, f.firmus,

I firmness, durability, strength (class.; syn.: constantia, firmitudo, perseverantia).

I Lit.: ea, quae ille (Epicurus) propter firmitatem stere/mnia appellat, Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 49: age specta, postes cujusmodi! Quanta firmitate facti, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 134: materiae, * Caes. B. C. 2, 11, 1: amphorarum, Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 161: Aegyptii lini, id. 19, 1, 2, § 14: fastigiorum templorum, id. 35, 12, 46, § 158: uvae contra frigora, etc., id. 14, 3, 4, § 40: vini, id. 14, 2, 4, § 21: gladiatoria totius corporis, vigor, Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 63; cf. Quint. 8, 4, 16: corporis, id. 11, 3, 19; 2, 16, 13; Plin. Pan. 4, 7; 15, 1: capitis, lateris pecorisve, Quint. 11, 3, 16; 40: firmitas et vigor vocis, Gell. 2, 3, 4: valetudinis, Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 42. —In plur.: pulvis Puteolanus aedificiis praestat firmitates, Vitr. 2, 6.—

II Trop., firmness, steadfastness, stability, endurance, constancy, power: firmitas et constantia, Cic. Fam. 9, 11, 1: animi, id. Sest. 44, 95; id. Att. 12, 38, 3; id. Tusc. 5, 26, 74: sapientis, id. Ac. 2, 20, 66: exercitus numero amplissimus, firmitate exiguus, Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 3: ut quisque minimum firmitatis haberet minimumque virium, ita amicitias appetere maxime, Cic. Lael. 13, 46; cf.: ea (amicitia) non satis habet firmitatis, id. ib. 5, 19: si aliquid firmitatis nactus sit Antonius, id. Fam. 11, 12, 1: imperii, Suet. Vesp. 7.

In the wild

firmitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.4.21
firmitatem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.91.1
firmitatem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.7.26
firmitatem Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.3.1
firmitas Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.3.4
firmitatem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.2.10

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