The corpus record — Latin

lenitas

lenitas · f

softness, smoothness, gentleness, mildness

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Pro P. Sulla 5 · 5.37/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
In L. Catilinam 4 · 3.19/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
Pro L. Murena 3 · 2.84/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
De Clementia 2 · 2.4/10k
De Bello Africo 3 · 2.31/10k
De Pudicitia 3 · 2.23/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lēnĭtas — Lewis & Short

lēnĭtas, ātis, f.1. lenis,

I softness, smoothness, gentleness, mildness.

I Lit.: vini, opp. asperitas, Plin. 14, 19, 24, § 120: lini, id. 13, 12, 26, § 82: Arar in Rhodanum influit incredibili lenitate, slowness, Caes. B. G. 1, 12: vocis, mildness, Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 182: smaragdi viridis lenitas, delicate green, Plin. 37, 5, 16, § 63.—

II Trop.

A In gen., mildness, gentleness, tenderness, lenity: non est jam lenitati locus, severitatem res ipsa flagitat, Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 6: dare se ad lenitatem, id. Fam. 13, 1, 4: animi, with mollitia, id. Sull. 6, 18: animadvertendi, id. Part. Or. 22, 78: legum, id. Rab. Perd. 3, 10: remissa nimis lenitate uti, Gell. 11, 18, 6.—

B In partic., of speech: elaborant alii in lenitate et aequabilitate, et puro quasi quodam et candido genere dicendi, Cic. Or. 16, 53: lenitas ejus sine nervis perspici potest, id. Brut. 48, 177: genus orationis cum lenitate quadam aequabili profluens, id. de Or. 2, 15, 64.

In the wild

lenitatem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.170
lenitate Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 92
lenitatem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.43
lenitate Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 4 p51
lenitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.5.p1
lenitatem Apuleius, Apologia 95.p1

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