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medietas

medietas · f

the middle, place in the middle, midst

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 3 · 4.71/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 2 · 3.43/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

mĕdĭĕtas — Lewis & Short

mĕdĭĕtas, ātis, f.medius,

I the middle, place in the middle, midst (in Cic. only as transl. of the Gr. meso/ths; elsewhere postclass.).

I Lit.: vix audeo dicere medietates, quas Graeci meso/thtas appellant, Cic. Univ. 7, 20: narium, Lact. 10, 19: totius loci, App. M. 2, p. 116, 6: sic feliciore loco medietatis est positus (sc. homo), App. Asclep. 6, p. 79: in mediatate distinctis aquis, Tert. de Bapt. 3.—

B Transf., a half, moiety (syn. dimidium): decoquere aliquid usque ad medietatem, Pall. Mart. 10, 10 and 30: sulcum usque ad medietatem replere, id. Mai. 3: debiti, Cod. Th. 4, 19, 1.—

II Trop., a middle course, medium: medietatem quandam sequi, Dig. 5, 4, 3 fin.; Arn. 2, 65: ejusmodi medietates inter virtutes et vitia intercedere, App. Dogm. Plat. p. 14, 3.

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