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lentitudo

lentitudo · f

slowness, sluggishness, inactivity

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Where it lives

Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

lentĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

lentĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.id.,

I slowness, sluggishness, inactivity.

I Lit.: conjuratorum, Tac. A. 15, 51; Vell. 2, 11, 2.—

II Trop.: dulness, apathy, insensibility, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 43: omnino non irasci est non solum gravitatis, sed nonnumquam etiam lentitudinis, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 38.—Of speech: libros ejusdem lentitudinis ac teporis, dulness, heaviness, Tac. Or. 21, 6.

In the wild

lentitudine Tacitus, Annales 15.p66
lentitudine Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.9.11
lentitudinis Tacitus, Annales 15.p52
lentitudine Tacitus, Annales 16.p36
lentitudinis Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 21.6
lentitudinis Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 1.1.38

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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