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virilitas

virilitas · f

manhood

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De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Naturalis Historia 11 · 0.28/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
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What it meant

vĭrīlĭtas — Lewis & Short

vĭrīlĭtas, ātis, f.virilis,

I manhood (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.

A The age of manhood, Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 155.—

B Abstr., manhood, virility: Gaiam C. Caesarem, quasi incertae virilitatis, dicere, Tac. A. 6, 5: adempta, id. ib. 6, 31.—

2 Concr., the organs of generation, Quint. 5, 12, 17; Plin. 7, 4, 3, § 36; cf. Dig. 48, 8, 4 fin.; Mart. 9, 7, 5 al.—Of animals, Col. 6, 26, 3; Plin. 23, 1, 23, § 44.—*

II Trop., manliness, manly vigor: sanctitas certe. et, ut sic dicam, virilitas ab his (veteribus Latinis) petenda, etc., Quint. 1, 8, 9; Val. Max. 2, 4, 2.

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