soundness of body

sānĭtas, ātis, f. [sanus], soundness of body, health (class., = valetudo bona; opp. valetudo mala, imbecillitas; cf.

also salus): est enim corporis temperatio, cum ea congruunt inter se, e quibus constamus, sanitas: sic animi dicitur, cum ejus judicia opinionesque concordant,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 30; cf. id. ib. 3, 5, 10.

Lit.:

Apollo, quaeso te, ut des Salutem et sanitatem nostrae familiae,

Plaut. Merc. 4, 1, 13 (for which, in the old formula of prayer in Cato, R. R. 141, 3: duis bonam salutem valetudinemque; v. salus, I. A. init.): ut alimenta sanis corporibus agricultura, sic sanitatem aegris medicina promittit, Cels. prooem. init.:

qui incorruptā sanitate sunt,

Cic. Opt. Gen. 3, 8 (for which, shortly before:

contenti bonā valetudine): aegro interim nil ventura sanitas prodest,

Sen. Ep. 117, 26; Tac. A. 1, 68 fin.:

si robur corporibus bonum, non est minus sanitas,

Quint. 5, 10, 89 N. cr.; so, corporis (with integritas), Gell. 18, 1, 5:

pecoris,

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 21:

hostiae,

id. ib. 2, 5, 11: donec sanitate ossis dolor finiatur, by the healthy condition of the bone, i. e. by the bone ' s being completely healed, Cels. 8, 8 fin.:

ad sanitatem dum venit curatio,

while the cure is being perfected, Phaedr. 5, 7, 12; cf.:

folia ligni ad sanitatem gentium,

Vulg. Apoc. 22, 2:

redire in statum pristinum sanitatis,

Ambros. in Psa. 40, 12:

restitui sanitati,

to recover, Vulg. Matt. 12, 13; Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 13 fin.:

sanitatem reddere,

Cels. 2, 8; Arn. 7, 39:

pristinae aliquem sanitati restituere,

Hier. Ep. 76, 8; Sulp. Sev. Vit. St. Mart. 21:

recipere sanitatem,

Just. 11, 8, 9; Cels. 6, 15 fin.:

recuperare sanitatem,

Just. 20, 2, 9; 32, 3, 9.—

Trop.

Soundness of mind (opp. to passionate excitement), right reason, good sense, discretion, sanity, etc. (v. Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 30 supra):

sanitatem enim animorum positam in tranquillitate quādam constantiāque censebant,...quod in perturbato animo, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non posset,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 4, 9:

sua quemque fraus, suum scelus de sanitate ac mente deturbat,

id. Pis. 20, 46; pravarum opinionum conturbatio et ipsarum inter se repugnantia sanitate spoliat animum morbisque perturbat, id. Tusc. 4, 10, 23:

plebem ad furorem impellit, ut facinore admisso ad sanitatem pudeat reverti,

Caes. B. G. 7, 42; 1, 42:

ad sanitatem se convertere,

Cic. Sull. 5, 17:

ad sanitatem redire,

id. Fam. 12, 10, 1:

ad sanitatem reducere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 40, § 98:

perducere ad sanitatem,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 22; Cic. Phil. 11, 14, 37; Liv. 2, 29; 2, 45; Phaedr. 4, 25, 35:

est omnino Priscus dubiae sanitatis,

Plin. Ep. 6, 15, 3.—

Of style, soundness or correctness of style, propriety, regularity, purity, etc.:

insulsitatem et insolentiam, tamquam insaniam orationis odit, sanitatem autem et integritatem quasi religionem et verecundiam orationis probat,

Cic. Brut. 82, 284:

summi oratoris vel sanitate vel vitio,

id. ib. 80, 278:

ut (eloquentia) omnem illam salubritatem Atticae dictionis et quasi sanitatem perderet,

lost all the healthy vigor and soundness, as it were, of Attic speech, id. ib. 13, 51 (v. salubritas, I. fin.; and cf. id. Opt. Gen. 3, 8):

qui suae imbecillitati sanitatis appellationem, quae est maxime contraria, obtendunt,

Quint. 12, 10, 15; cf. Tac. Or. 23:

eloquentiae,

id. ib. 25.—

Rarely of other abstract things:

victoriae,

solidity, permanence, Tac. H. 2, 28 fin.:

metri,

regularity, correctness, Macr. S. 5, 17 fin.

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vălētūdo ( vălītūdo), ĭnis, f. [valeo], habit, state, or condition of body, state of health, health, whether good or bad.

Lit.

In gen.:

optimā valetudine uti,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

valetudine minus commodā uti,

id. ib. 3, 62:

integra,

Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 47:

bona,

Lucr. 3, 102; Cic. Lael. 6, 20; Quint. 10, 3, 26; Cato, R. R. 141, 3:

melior,

Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 120:

commodior,

Quint. 6, 3, 77:

incommoda,

Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1:

infirma atque etiam aegra,

id. Brut. 48, 180:

quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

id. Sen. 11, 35:

adversa,

Just. 41, 6:

dura,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 88:

confirmata,

Cic. Att. 10, 17, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265:

ut valetudini tuae diligentissime servias,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46:

multum interest inter vires et bonam valetudinem,

Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. 6.— Plur.: sic caecitas ferri facile possit, si non desint subsidia valetudinum, of different states of health, i. e. whatever they may be, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113.—

In partic.

A good state or condition, soundness of body, good health, healthfulness (syn.:

salus, sanitas): valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:

valetudo (opportuna est), ut dolore careas et muneribus fungare corporis,

Cic. Lael. 6, 22:

cui Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde,

Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 10:

valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis et observatione, quae res aut prodesse soleant aut obesse,

Cic. Off. 2, 24, 86:

melior fio valetudine, quam intermissis exercitationibus amiseram,

id. Fam. 9, 18, 3:

id pecus valetudinis tutissimae est,

Col. 7, 22:

hoc cibo... firmitatem valetudinis custodiri,

Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 42; cf.:

Quaque valetudo constat, nunc libera morbis, Nunc oppressa,

Manil. 3, 140; cf. also Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265.—

A bad state or condition, ill health, sickness, feebleness, infirmity, indisposition (syn.:

infirmitas, imbecillitas): curatio valetudinis,

Cic. Div. 2, 59, 123:

gravitas valetudinis, quā tamen jam paulum videor levari,

id. Fam. 6, 2, 1:

affectus valetudine,

Caes. B. C. 1, 31:

gravis auctumnus omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat,

id. ib. 3, 2:

quodam valetudinis genere tentari,

Cic. Att. 11, 23, 1:

quod me propter valetudinem tuam... non vidisses,

id. Fam. 4, 1, 1:

quod his Nonis in collegio nostro non affuisses, valetudinem causam, non maestitiam fuisse,

id. Lael. 2, 8:

excusatione te uti valetudinis,

id. Pis. 6, 13:

quibus (latere, voce) fractis aut imminutis aetate seu valetudine,

Quint. 12, 11, 2:

medicus quid in quoque valetudinis genere faciendum sit, docebit,

id. 7, 10, 10:

Blaesus novissimā valetudine conflictabatur,

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 7:

major, i. e. morbus comitialis,

Just. 13, 2:

oculorum,

Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 6:

calculorum,

Plin. 21, 27, 100, § 173.— Plur.:

medicus regere valetudines principis solitus,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

valetudinibus fessi,

id. H. 3, 2:

quod ad febrium valitudines attinet,

Plin. 23, 1, 24, § 48:

graves et periculosas valetudines experiri,

Suet. Aug. 81; id. Tib. 11; Vitr. 1, 4.—

Trop. (rare but class.), of the mind, health, soundness, sanity:

ii sunt constituti quasi malā valetudine animi, sanabiles tamen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80:

roga bonam mentem, bonam valetudinem animi, deinde tunc corporis,

Sen. Ep. 10, 4; cf.:

valetudo ei neque corporis neque animi constitit,

unsound state of mind, mental infirmity, Suet. Calig. 50.—Rarely without animi:

qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur,

Cic. Div. 1, 38, 81.—

Of style:

quos (Lysiae studiosi), valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,

Cic. Brut. 16, 64. —

Personified: Valetudo, Health, as a divinity, Mart. Cap. 1, § 55.

vălētūdo ( vălītūdo), ĭnis, f. [valeo], habit, state, or condition of body, state of health, health, whether good or bad.

Lit.

In gen.:

optimā valetudine uti,

Caes. B. C. 3, 49:

valetudine minus commodā uti,

id. ib. 3, 62:

integra,

Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 47:

bona,

Lucr. 3, 102; Cic. Lael. 6, 20; Quint. 10, 3, 26; Cato, R. R. 141, 3:

melior,

Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 120:

commodior,

Quint. 6, 3, 77:

incommoda,

Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1:

infirma atque etiam aegra,

id. Brut. 48, 180:

quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,

id. Sen. 11, 35:

adversa,

Just. 41, 6:

dura,

Hor. S. 2, 2, 88:

confirmata,

Cic. Att. 10, 17, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265:

ut valetudini tuae diligentissime servias,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46:

multum interest inter vires et bonam valetudinem,

Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. 6.— Plur.: sic caecitas ferri facile possit, si non desint subsidia valetudinum, of different states of health, i. e. whatever they may be, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113.—

In partic.

A good state or condition, soundness of body, good health, healthfulness (syn.:

salus, sanitas): valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4:

valetudo (opportuna est), ut dolore careas et muneribus fungare corporis,

Cic. Lael. 6, 22:

cui Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde,

Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 10:

valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis et observatione, quae res aut prodesse soleant aut obesse,

Cic. Off. 2, 24, 86:

melior fio valetudine, quam intermissis exercitationibus amiseram,

id. Fam. 9, 18, 3:

id pecus valetudinis tutissimae est,

Col. 7, 22:

hoc cibo... firmitatem valetudinis custodiri,

Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 42; cf.:

Quaque valetudo constat, nunc libera morbis, Nunc oppressa,

Manil. 3, 140; cf. also Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265.—

A bad state or condition, ill health, sickness, feebleness, infirmity, indisposition (syn.:

infirmitas, imbecillitas): curatio valetudinis,

Cic. Div. 2, 59, 123:

gravitas valetudinis, quā tamen jam paulum videor levari,

id. Fam. 6, 2, 1:

affectus valetudine,

Caes. B. C. 1, 31:

gravis auctumnus omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat,

id. ib. 3, 2:

quodam valetudinis genere tentari,

Cic. Att. 11, 23, 1:

quod me propter valetudinem tuam... non vidisses,

id. Fam. 4, 1, 1:

quod his Nonis in collegio nostro non affuisses, valetudinem causam, non maestitiam fuisse,

id. Lael. 2, 8:

excusatione te uti valetudinis,

id. Pis. 6, 13:

quibus (latere, voce) fractis aut imminutis aetate seu valetudine,

Quint. 12, 11, 2:

medicus quid in quoque valetudinis genere faciendum sit, docebit,

id. 7, 10, 10:

Blaesus novissimā valetudine conflictabatur,

Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 7:

major, i. e. morbus comitialis,

Just. 13, 2:

oculorum,

Cic. Fam. 14, 4, 6:

calculorum,

Plin. 21, 27, 100, § 173.— Plur.:

medicus regere valetudines principis solitus,

Tac. A. 6, 50:

valetudinibus fessi,

id. H. 3, 2:

quod ad febrium valitudines attinet,

Plin. 23, 1, 24, § 48:

graves et periculosas valetudines experiri,

Suet. Aug. 81; id. Tib. 11; Vitr. 1, 4.—

Trop. (rare but class.), of the mind, health, soundness, sanity:

ii sunt constituti quasi malā valetudine animi, sanabiles tamen,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80:

roga bonam mentem, bonam valetudinem animi, deinde tunc corporis,

Sen. Ep. 10, 4; cf.:

valetudo ei neque corporis neque animi constitit,

unsound state of mind, mental infirmity, Suet. Calig. 50.—Rarely without animi:

qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur,

Cic. Div. 1, 38, 81.—

Of style:

quos (Lysiae studiosi), valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,

Cic. Brut. 16, 64. —

Personified: Valetudo, Health, as a divinity, Mart. Cap. 1, § 55.