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saturitas

saturitas · f

fulness

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Where it lives

Captivi 4 · 4.62/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.91/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Adversus Marcionem 3 · 0.36/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3 · 0.25/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

sătŭrĭtas — Lewis & Short

sătŭrĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I fulness, repletion, satiety (mostly ante-class. and postAug. for the class. satietas; perh. only once in Cic.).

I Lit.: aperitur ostium, unde saturitate saepe ego exii ebrius, Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 35; 4, 1, 4; 4, 2, 85; Aur. Vict. Epit. 45 fin.: quid causae est quin virgis te usque ad saturitatem sauciem? till you have enough, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 53 (for which usu. ad satietatem; v. satietas); Vulg. Exod. 16, 3.— Humorously personified as the goddess of a parasite, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 97.—

II Transf. *

A (Acc. to satur, I. B. 1.) A fulness or depth of color, Plin. 9, 39, 64, § 138.—

B (Acc. to satur, I. B. 2.) Fulness, plenty, abundance: saturitas copiaque rerum omnium quae ad victum hominum pertinent, * Cic. Sen. 16, 56; Vulg. Prov. 3, 10.—*

C Concr. (superfluity of food which has been eaten, i. e.), excrements, Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 92 (cf. satietas, I. A. 2.).

In the wild

Saturitas Plautus, Captivi 4.2
saturitatis Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 5
saturitatem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2.18.10
saturitas Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 43.3
sáturitate Plautus, Captivi 1.1
saturitas Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 125.9

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