The corpus record — Latin

vilitas

vilitas · f

lowness of price

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Where it lives

Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Alexander Severus 2 · 1.87/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Pudicitia 2 · 1.49/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Res Gestae 11 · 0.86/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vīlĭtas — Lewis & Short

vīlĭtas, ātis, f.vilis,

I lowness of price, cheapness.

I Lit.: tanta repente vilitas annonae ex caritate rei frumentariae consecuta est, etc., Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 44: vilitas in vendendis (fructibus), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227: cum alter annus in vilitate, alter in summā caritate fuerit, id. ib. 2, 3, 93, § 216: ad denarios senos vilitas rediit, Plin. 35, 6, 28, § 47: offerre aliquid vilitati, to offer for sale at a low price, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 34.—

II Transf.

A Trifling value of a thing, meanness, baseness, worthlessness, vileness (post-Aug.): verborum, Petr. 118: nominum, Plin. 20, praef. § 1: si humiles producet, vilitatem; potentes, gratiam oportebit incessere, Quint. 5, 7, 23: morum, App. Flor. 1, p. 344, 30.—

B Subject., low esteem, disregard, slighting, contempt: vilitas sui, Sen. Clem. 1, 3, 4; id. Ep. 121, 24; Curt. 5, 9, 6.

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