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levitas

levitas · f

lightness

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Where it lives

Epicedion in Patrem 1 · 26.39/10k
Pro L. Flacco 9 · 8.25/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1 · 6.32/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 4 · 5.29/10k
Timaeus 2 · 4.74/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 2 · 4.45/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 1 · 3.81/10k
Pro P. Sestio 6 · 3.57/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 1 · 3.21/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 3 · 2.75/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 3 · 2.74/10k

Densest 12 of 79 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lĕvĭtas — Lewis & Short

lĕvĭtas, ātis, f.1. levis,

I lightness, as to weight.

I Lit. (rare): plumarum, Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745: armorum, Caes. B. G. 5, 34: nulli fruticum levitas major, Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—*

B Transf., poet., movableness, mobility: Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane, Ov. F. 2, 673.—

II Trop.

A Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.): quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius? Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9: temere assentientium, id. Ac. 2, 38, 120: in populari ratione, id. Brut. 27, 103: mobilitas et levitas animi, Caes. B. G. 2, 1: ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est, lightness of mind, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: amatoriis levitatibus dediti, frivolities, id. Fin. 1, 18, 62: manet in rebus temere congestis levitas, Quint. 10, 3, 17: contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.—

B In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare): opinionis, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.

2. lēvĭtas — Lewis & Short

lēvĭtas (laev-), ātis, f.2. lēvis,

I smoothness.

I Lit. (class.): speculorum, Cic. Univ. 14; id. de Or. 3, 25, 99; id. Univ. 6; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7: intestinorum, slipperiness, lubricity, Cels. 4, 16; 2, 8.—

II Trop., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility: Demosthenes nihil levitate Aeschini et splendore verborum cedit, Cic. Or. 31, 110: verborum, Quint. 10, 1, 52: effeminata, id. 8, 3, 6.

In the wild

leuitas Apuleius, Apologia 14
leuitas Silius Italicus, Punica 16.146
levitatem Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.6.9
levitas Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae 10.2.2
leuitas Silius Italicus, Punica 11.16
levitate Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 6

6 of 229 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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