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nequitia

bad quality, badness

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Where it lives

Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 2 · 4.61/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
De Ira 8 · 3.59/10k
Amores 5 · 3.2/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 7 · 2.85/10k
Elegiae 7 · 2.77/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 3 · 2.74/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nēquĭtĭa — Lewis & Short

nēquĭtĭa, ae, and nēquĭtĭes (no

I gen. or dat.), f. nequam, bad quality, badness (very rare): aceti, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 125.—

II Trop., bad moral quality, of all degrees, idleness, negligence, worthlessness, vileness (syn.: malitia, negligentia, ignavia, mollitia; class.).

A Idleness, inactivity, remissness, negligence: me ipsum inertiae nequitiaeque condemno, Cic. Cat. 1, 2, 4; 1, 11, 29: inertissimi homines, nescio quā singulari nequitiā praediti, id. Fin. 5, 20, 56.—

B Lightness, levity, inconsiderateness: omnia mala probra flagitia, quae homines faciunt, in duabus rebus sunt, malitia atque nequitia. Si nequitiam defendere vis, licet, P. African. ap. Gell. 7, 11, 9; Auct. ad Her. 3, 6, 11.—

C Prodigality, profusion: quod filii nequitiam videret, Cic. Clu. 51, 141: illum aut nequities ... expellet, Hor. S. 2, 2, 131.—

D Profligacy, wantonness, lewdness: uxor pauperis Ibyci Tandem nequitiae pone modum tuae, Hor. C. 3, 15, 1; 3, 4, 78; Ov. F. 1, 414; Phaedr. 3, 8, 15; in plur., Mart. 4, 42, 4.—

E Worthlessness, vileness, wickedness, villany: Lucurgus mihi quidem videtur posse hic ad nequitiam adducier, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 4: si domus haec habenda est potius, quam officina nequitiae et diversorium flagitiorum omnium, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 134; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87: qui istius insignem nequitiam, frontis involutam integumentis, nondum cernat, id. Pis. 6, 12: maturae mala nequitiae, Juv. 14, 216.

In the wild

nequitia Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.17
nequitiam Terence, Adelphi 3.3
nequitiaque Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.91
nequitia Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.134
nequitia Minucius Felix, Octavius 5.11
nequitiam Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.10.2

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