ager+post+longam+desidiam+laetas+segetes+affert+col

dēsĭdĭa, ae, f. [desideo], a sitting long, remaining in a place.

Prop. (rare), Prop. 1, 15, 6.—

A sitting idle, idleness, inactivity, slothfulness (class.;

for syn. cf.: inertia, languor, otium, pax, feriae, justitium, dies fasti, etc., and v. deses): in portum confugere non inertiae neque desidiae,

Cic. Brut. 2, 8;

so with inertia,

id. Sest. 10, 22;

with languor,

id. Off. 1, 34, 123; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78;

with socordia,

Sall. C. 4, 1;

with segnities,

Suet. Galb. 9 et saep.;

opp. industria,

Cic. Sest. 48 fin.;

opp. agentes,

Ov. R. Am. 149 et saep.:

corde expelle desidiam tuo,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24: latrocinia desidiae minuendae causa fieri, * Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 6:

horridus alter (ductor apium) desidiā,

Verg. G. 4, 94:

vitanda est improba Siren, Desidia,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 15 et saep.—In plur., Lucr. 5, 48; cf.:

vobis desidiae cordi,

Verg. A. 9, 615.—

Of an inanimate subject:

ager post longam desidiam laetas segetes affert,

lying fallow, Col. 2, 17, 3.

dēsīdĭa, ae, f. [desido], a subsiding, retiring (an Appuleian word):

maris, Ap. de Mundo, p. 73, 28: sanguinis,

id. Dogm. Plat. p. 17, 15.