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sedulitas

sedulitas · f

Assiduity

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 1 · 3.21/10k
Divus Aurelianus 2 · 2.56/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sēdŭlĭtas — Lewis & Short

sēdŭlĭtas, ātis, f.sedulus.

I Assiduity, application, zeal, earnestness, sedulousness, sedulity (class.; syn. diligentia): Balbi quoque Cornelii operam et sedulitatem laudare possum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 2; cf.: pro sedulitate ac diligentiā, Suet. Galb. 12 fin.; of ants: qui labor, quae sedulitas, Plin. 11, 30, 36, § 109; Cic. Caecin. 5, 14; id. Arch. 10, 25: ne mea sedulitas aut insidiosa aut inpudens videretur, id. Agr. 2, 5, 12 al.; Col. 6, 27, 1; Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 6: multae sedulitatis anus, Ov. F. 3, 668: non sentitur sedulitate labor, id. ib. 4, 434; id. P. 3, 8, 18: officiosa sedulitas et opella forensis, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 8 et al.—*

II With an invidious implication, officiousness, obtrusiveness: sedulitas stulte quem diligit urget, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 260.

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