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patientia

patientia · f

the quality of bearing

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Where it lives

De Patientia 96 · 212.01/10k
De Providentia 7 · 17.11/10k
De Constantia 5 · 9.46/10k
Psychomachia 5 · 8.33/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 4 · 5.93/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 4 · 5.29/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
De Ira 10 · 4.48/10k
Eumenes 1 · 4.37/10k
De idolatria 3 · 4.35/10k

Densest 12 of 115 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pătĭentĭa — Lewis & Short

pătĭentĭa, ae, f.patior,

I the quality of bearing, suffering, or enduring, patience, endurance.

I Lit.

A In gen.: pati entia est honestatis aut utilitatis causā rerum arduarum ac difficilium voluntaria ac diuturna perpessio, Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 163: patientia famis et frigoris, id. Cat. 1, 10, 26: hominum ea patientia, virtus frugalitasque est, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 7: paupertatis, id. Agr. 2, 24, 64: audiendi, Quint. 11, 2, 8; 12, 9, 9.—

B In partic., submission to unnatural lust, pathicism, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34; Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 5; id. Vit. Beat. 13, 3; Tac. A. 6, 1; Petr. 9 and 25; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 5, 3, 2.—

II Transf.

A Forbearance, indulgence, lenity: constantiam dico? nescio an melius patientiam possem dicere, Cic. Lig. 9, 26: quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientiā nostrā? id. Cat. 1, 1, 1; id. Pis. 2, 5: quem duplici panno patientia velat, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 25: levius fit patientiā Quicquid corrigere est nefas, id. C. 1, 24, 19.—

B In a bad sense, indolence, want of spirit: ne quis in me aut nimiam patientiam, aut nimium stuporem arguat, Porc. Latro ap. Sen. Contr. 2, 15; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 5: in patientiā firmitudinem simulans, Tac. A. 6, 46.—

C Submissiveness, subjection: usque ad servilem patientiam demissus, Tac. A. 14, 26: Britanniam uno praelio veteri patientiae restituit, id. Agr. 16; id. H. 2, 29.

In the wild

patientia Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.7
patientia Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.2.8
patientiae Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 16.2
patientia Tertullian, De Patientia 4
patientia Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.3.7
patientia Tertullian, De Patientia 13

6 of 467 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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