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1 venustās
venustās ātis, f [venus], loveliness, comeliness, charm, grace, beauty, elegance, attractiveness: Antiqua tua, your old fascination, T.: corporis.— Artistic grace, fine taste, art: signa eximiā venustate: fastigium illud non venustas sed necessitas ipsa fabricata est.—Elegance, good taste, gracefulness: homo adfluens omni lepore ac venustate: (oratoris est) agere cum venustate: Quis me venustatis plenior? amiability, T.* * *attractiveness, charm, grace; luck in love; delightful conditions (pl.) -
2 amabilitas
ămābĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [amabilis], loveliness, amiableness (only ante- and postclass.):si amabilitas nostra tibi placet,
Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 58:qui amabilitati animum adiceret,
devoted himself to loveliness, id. Poen. 5, 4, 1.—Hence in late Latin as a term of endearment:ad amabilitatem tuam litteras mitto,
to your Amiability, Symm. 7, 3. -
3 lepor
lĕpor and lĕpos, ōris, m. [perh. root lamp-; Gr. lampô, lampros; cf. Lat. limpidus, lanterna], pleasantness, agreeableness, attractiveness, charm.I.In gen.:II.quasi salsa muriatica esse autumantur sine omni lepore et sine suavitate,
Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 32:aurea, pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore Saecla,
Lucr. 2, 502; 4, 1133:omnis vitae lepos,
Plin. 31, 7, 41, § 88.—In partic.A.Of behavior, pleasantness, grace, politeness, amiability:B.affluens omni lepore ac venustate,
Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142:in quo mihi videtur specimen fuisse humanitatis, salis, suavitatis, leporis,
id. Tusc. 5, 19, 55. —As a term of endearment, = blanditiae, my delight, charmer:C.respice, o mi lepos,
Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 19; id. Curc. 1, 2, 4.—Of speech, pleasantry, wit, humor (so most freq. in Cic.; cf.:sal, facetiae, festivitas): Inest lepos ludusque in hac comoedia,
Plaut. As. prol. 13:ea esset in homine jucunditas et tantus in jocando lepos ut, etc.,
Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 27:urbanitatis oratorius, non scurrilis, lepos,
id. Brut. 38, 143; cf. id. de Or. 1, 34, 159:floruit admirabili quodam lepore dicendi,
id. Ac. 2, 6, 16:inusitatus nostris oratoribus lepos,
id. de Or. 2, 23, 98:omnes verborum, omnes sententiarum lepores,
id. Or. 27, 96.
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