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maestitia

maestitia · f

a being sad

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 2 · 3.14/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 2 · 1.15/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 2 · 1.12/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Annales 9 · 1.01/10k
Philippicae 5 · 0.95/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 6 · 0.81/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

maestĭtĭa — Lewis & Short

maestĭtĭa (moest-), ae, f.maestus,

I a being sad or sorrowful, sadness, sorrow, grief, dejection, melancholy (class.): ex maestitiā, ex hilaritate, ex risu, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146: totis theatris maestitiam inferre, id. Tusc. 1, 44, 106: esse in maestitiā, id. Phil. 2, 15, 37: maestitiae resistere, id. Or. 43, 148: sapientia est una, quae maestitiam pellat ex animis, id. Fin. 1, 13, 43: illa maestitia est, caruisse anno circensibus uno, Juv. 11, 53.—Of inanim. things, gloom, gloominess, severity: orationis, Cic. Or. 16, 53: frigorum, Col. 7, 3, 11.

In the wild

maestitia Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 6.9.1
maestitia Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.29.3.9
maestitia Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 10.5.20
maestitiam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.5.9
maestitiam Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 8.p1
maestitia Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p45

6 of 76 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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