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  • 1 cāritās

        cāritās ātis, f    [carus], dearness, costliness, high price: annonae: rei frumentariae: annus in summā caritate fuit. — Fig., regard, esteem, affection, love: caritatem conciliare: inter natos et parentes: erga patriam, L.: caritatem parare, Ta.: patriae et suorum, affection for: liberūm, L.: necessitudinis, arising from: omnīs omnium caritates patria una complexa est, kinds of affection.
    * * *
    charity; love, affection, esteem, favor; dearness; high price

    Latin-English dictionary > cāritās

  • 2 pretiositas

    preciousness; costliness

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  • 3 caritas

    cārĭtas, ātis, f. [carus].
    I.
    Prop., dearness, costliness, high price, etc. (opp. vilitas):

    annonae,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 47; 2, 3, 92, § 215; id. Off. 3, 12, 50; Liv. 44, 7, 10; Suet. Ner. 45:

    rei frumentariae (opp. vilitas annonae),

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 15, 44:

    nummorum,

    id. Att. 9, 9, 4:

    olei,

    Plin. 18, 28, 68, § 273:

    vini,

    Suet. Aug. 42.—Also absol. caritas (sc. annonae), high prices, Cato, R. R. 3:

    ut tum vendas cum caritas est,

    Varr. R. R. 1, 69:

    cum alter annus in vilitate, alter in summā caritate fuerit,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 93, § 216; id. Off. 2, 17, 58.—
    II.
    Trop., regard, esteem, affection, love (cf. amor, I.; in good prose;

    syn.: benevolentia, favor, studium): cum deorum tum parentum patriaeque cultus eorumque hominum, qui aut sapientiā aut opibus excellunt, ad caritatem referri solet: conjuges autem et liberi, et fratres et alii, quos usus familiaritasque conjunxit, quamquam etiam caritate ipsā, tamen amore maxime continentur,

    Cic. Part. Or. 25, 88; hence, opp. amor, as esteem to personal affection:

    si id videare, quod sit utile ipsis, defendere... haec res amorem magis conciliat, illa virtutis defensio caritatem,

    id. de Or. 2, 51, 206; cf. Treb. ap. id. Fam. 12, 16, 2; Liv. 24, 4, 8:

    ut qui pacem belli amore turbaverant, bellum pacis caritate deponerent,

    Tac. H. 2, 37: amor pathos, caritas êthos, Quint. 6, 2, 12:

    caritas, quae est inter natos et parentes,

    Cic. Lael. 8, 27;

    Quint. prooem. § 6: liberalitate qui utuntur benevolentiam sibi conciliant et caritatem,

    id. Fin. 1, 16, 52; id. Lael. 27, 102; Quint. 11, 1, 72:

    ingenita erga patriam caritas,

    Liv. 1, 34, 5:

    retinere caritatem in aliquem,

    Cic. Lael. 19, 70:

    sanguine et caritate propior,

    Tac. A. 6, 46:

    caritatem paraverat loco auctoritatis,

    id. Agr. 16 fin. — The subjoined gen. is usu. objective:

    patriae et suorum,

    Cic. Off. 3, 27, 100; id. Sest. 24, 53; Nep. Alcib. 5, 1:

    rei publicae,

    Cic. Phil. 12, 8, 20; Liv. 2, 2, 5:

    domini,

    id. 1, 51, 8:

    Syracusanorum,

    id. 25, 28, 7:

    Hieronis,

    id. 24, 5, 1:

    liberum,

    id. 8, 7, 18:

    filiae,

    Tac. A. 12, 4:

    ipsius soli,

    Liv. 2, 1, 5:

    sedium suarum,

    id. 5, 42, 2; Quint. 6, 2, 14.—But sometimes also subjective, love entertained by one:

    hominum, deorum,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 122; id. de Or. 2, 58, 237:

    civium,

    id. Phil. 1, 12, 29; Liv. 24, 4, 8 (with amor);

    or, more rarely, of the cause or ground of the love: caritas illius necessitudinis,

    Cic. Sest. 3, 6:

    benevolentiae,

    id. Lael. 9, 32.—In plur. of the different species of affection:

    omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est,

    Cic. Off. 1, 17, 57; id. Fin. 3, 22, 73:

    liberum,

    App. M. 5, p. 171.—
    B.
    In late Lat., meton., caritates = cari, the loved persons, Amm. 18, 8, 14; 24, 1, 9.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > caritas

  • 4 pretiositas

    prĕtĭōsĭtas, ātis, f. [pretiosus], preciousness, costliness (very rare): anuli pretiositas, Atei. Capito ap. Macr. S. 7, 13; App. M. 2, p. 123, 4.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > pretiositas

  • 5 sumptuositas

    sumptŭōsĭtas, ātis, f. [sumptuosus], great expense, costliness, expensiveness, Sid. Ep. 9, 6.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sumptuositas

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