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imbecillitas

imbecillitas · f

weakness

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Where it lives

Ad Uxorem 2 · 4.81/10k
De Constantia 2 · 3.78/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 3 · 3.21/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 2 · 2.1/10k
De Carne Christi 2 · 2.1/10k
De Medicina 20 · 1.95/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k

Densest 12 of 48 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

imbēcillĭtas — Lewis & Short

imbēcillĭtas (inb-), ātis, f.imbecillus,

I weakness, feebleness (class.; cf. infirmitas).

I Of the body: Tulliae meae morbus et imbecillitas corporis me exanimat. Cic. Att. 11, 6, 4: virium (with infirmitas laterum), id. Brut. 55, 202: valetudinis, id. Fam. 7, 1, 5: Niciae nostri (with mollitia), id. Att. 12, 26, 2; Suet. Gramm. 14; with senium, id. Calig. 44: imbecillitate Augusti nuntiata, i. e. indisposition, id. Tib. 11: qui suae imbecillitati sanitatis appellationem, quae est maxime contraria, optendant, Quint. 12, 10, 15: materiae, Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 2.—

B Transf., of condition as regards ability, powerlessness, impotency, helplessness, imbecility: utrum propter imbecillitatem atque inopiam desiderata sit amicitia, Cic. Lael. 8, 26; 9, 29; 32; id. Rep. 1, 25, 39; 3, 14; cf.: humani generis imbecillitatem fragilitatemque extimescere, id. Tusc. 5, 1, 3.—

II Of the mind: animi, Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9: ingenii, Plin. Ep. 4, 18, 1: consilii, Cic. Off. 1, 32, 117: magistratuum, id. Fam. 1, 4, 3: fallit plerumque, quod probitas vocatur, quae est imbecillitas, Quint. 6, 4, 12: neque illos imbecillitatis damnandos, Tac. A. 4, 8.

In the wild

inbecillitas Celsus, De Medicina 4.12.p3
inbecillitas Celsus, De Medicina 7.26.p5
imbecillitate Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 32.p1
inbecillitas Celsus, De Medicina 3.18.p2
imbecillitatem Cicero, Letters to Atticus 12.26.2
imbecillitates Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.8.p2

6 of 107 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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