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malitia

malitia · f

bad quality, badness

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Where it lives

De Patientia 6 · 13.25/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 6 · 12.6/10k
De Testimionio Animae 2 · 8.95/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Adversus Marcionem 31 · 3.74/10k
Truculentus 3 · 3.66/10k
Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
De Officiis 8 · 2.36/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k

Densest 12 of 71 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mălĭtĭa — Lewis & Short

mălĭtĭa, ae, f.malus,

I bad quality, badness.

I Lit. (post-class.): terrae malitia, Pall. 1, 6: arboris, unfruitfulness, id. 11, 8.—

II Trop., ill-will, spite, malice (class.): virtutis contraria est vitiositas: sic enim malo, quam malitiam, appellare eam, quam Graeci kaki/an appellant: nam malitia certi cujusdam vitii nomen est: vitiositas omnium, Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34: est enim malitia versuta et fallax nocendi ratio, id. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Rosc. Com. 16, 46: per summam fraudem et malitiam, id. Quint. 18, 56; id. Clu. 26, 70; opp. to virtus: virtute, non malitia, P. Scipioni placuisse, Sall. J. 22, 2.—With malus: sine mala omni malitia, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 38.—In plur.: collatio nostrarum malitiarum, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 66: everriculum malitiarum omnium, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74.—

B Cunning, artfulness: muliebris malitia adhibenda est mihi, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 23.—

C Sometimes in a good sense, like our roguery, Cic. Att. 15, 26, 4: tamen a malitia non discedis, you do not desist from your roguery, id. Fam. 9, 19, 1.

In the wild

malitia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.94.13
malitia Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 45
malitia Cicero, Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 20
malitia Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.24
malitiam Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.24
malitiae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.24

6 of 193 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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