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scaevitas

scaevitas · f

Awkwardness

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

scaevĭtas — Lewis & Short

scaevĭtas, ātis, f.scaevus, II. (postclass.).

I Awkwardness, perverseness, unskilfulness, Gell. praef., § 20; 6, 2, 8: artium, Amm. 30, 4, 10.—

II A mischance, misfortune, App. M. 3, p. 135, 27: fortunae, id. ib. 7, p. 189, 4: indignae rei, id. ib. 9, p. 221, 21.

In the wild

scaevitas Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae pr.1.20
scaevitate Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.2.8
scaevitatem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.10
scaevitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.10
scaevitatem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.2

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