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  • 1 elegantia

    ēlĕgantia, ae, f. [elegans].
    * I.
    A being nice or particular; exquisiteness, fastidiousness (ante-class. and very rare):

    ejus elegantia meam extemplo speciem spernat,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 20.—Far more freq.,
    II.
    Taste, propriety, refinement, grace, elegance (cf.: gustus, sapor, judicium).
    (α).
    With gen.: tu eloquentiam ab elegantia doctrinae segregandam putes, Cic. de Or. [p. 637] 1, 2, 5:

    vitae,

    Tac. A. 14, 19:

    morum,

    id. ib. 5, 8:

    capilli (with venustas oris),

    Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 67:

    ac subtilitas operum,

    id. 16, 15, 26, § 66 et saep.:

    verborum Latinorum,

    Cic. Brut. 75, 261; cf.

    scriptorum,

    id. Fam. 4, 4; so,

    Latini sermonis,

    id. de Or. 2, 7, 28:

    mira sermonis,

    Quint. 10, 1, 114:

    figurarum,

    id. 12, 9, 6;

    and transf.: Socraticorum,

    id. 10, 1, 83; cf.

    Secundi,

    id. 12, 10, 11. —In plur.:

    vocum verborumque,

    Gell. 2, 9 fin.
    (β).
    Absol.:

    qua munditia homines! qua elegantia!

    Cic. Fam. 9, 20, 2; cf. id. Sull. 28, 79; id. Leg. 3, 1:

    quae (agricultura) abhorret ab omni politiore elegantia,

    id. Fin. 3, 2; cf. Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62; 14, 6, 8, § 71; Suet. Aug. 73:

    elegantia modo et munditia remanebit,

    Cic. Or. 23 fin.; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 20; 10, 2, 19 al.—In plur.:

    laudatus propter elegantias dominus,

    Petr. 34, 5; Gell. 1, 4; cf. id. 19, 4.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > elegantia

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