blamelessness

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bŏnĭtas, ātis, f. [bonus], the good quality of a thing, goodness, excellence (cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 28 Herz.; class., but mostly in prose).

Of concrete objects:

bonitas praediorum,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

agrorum,

id. Agr. 2, 16, 41; Caes. B. G. 1, 28:

agri aut oppidi,

Cic. Agr. 2, 28, 76:

praediorum,

id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20; Dig. 50, 16, 86:

terrae,

Lucr. 5, 1247:

soli,

Quint. 2, 19, 2:

aquae,

Phaedr. 4, 9, 8:

vini,

Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 55:

arboris,

id. 13, 9, 17, § 61:

gemmarum,

id. 37, 8, 37, § 116 al.:

vocis,

Cic. Or. 18, 59:

verborum,

id. ib. 49, 164:

mutuum eādem bonitate solvatur quā datum est,

Dig. 12, 1, 3:

secunda bonitas (amomi),

the second quality, Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 48; Dig. 45, 1, 75, § 2.—

Of abstract objects:

ingenii,

Cic. Off. 3, 3, 14:

causae,

id. Dom. 22, 57:

naturae,

id. Off. 1, 32, 118:

sapientiae,

Quint. 5, 10, 75. —

Esp. freq. of character, good, honest, or friendly conduct; goodness, virtue, integrity, blamelessness:

neque ego nunc de illius bonitate, sed de generi impudentiā disputo,

Cic. Agr. 3, 3, 13:

rustici cum fidem alicujus bonitatemque laudant, dignum esse dicunt, quīcum in tenebris mices, id. Off, 3, 19, 77: quae tuae fidei, justitiae bonitatique commendo,

id. Fam. 13, 4, 3; id. N. D. 3, 30, 75:

si recte vestram bonitatem atque prudentiam cognovi,

id. Quint. 17, 54:

nec justitiae ullus esset nec bonitati locus,

id. Fin. 3, 20, 66:

perennis,

Ov. Tr. 4, 5, 27:

eam potestatem bonitate retinebat,

integrity, Nep. Milt. 8, 3; so id. Timol. 5, 1.—

Kindness, friendliness, benevolence, benignity, affability: perpetua naturalis bonitas ( kind-heartedness, benevolence), quae nullis casibus neque agitur, neque minuitur, Nep. Att. 9, 1:

te oro per mei te erga bonitatem patris,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 54; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60:

bonitas et beneficentia,

id. ib. 1, 43, 121;

3, 34, 84: homo liberalis et dissolutus et bonitate affluens,

id. Rosc. Com. 10, 27:

utrumque incredibile est, et Roscium quicquam per avaritiam appetisse, et Fannium quicquam per bonitatem amisisse,

id. ib. 7, 21:

multas hereditates nullā aliā re quam bonitate consecutus est,

Nep. Att. 21, 1:

bonitas, humanitas, misericordia,

Quint. 5, 1, 22; Tac. H. 1, 52. —

Esp., parental love, tenderness:

quid dicam... de bonitate in suos,

Cic. Lael. 3, 11:

facit parentes bonitas, non necessitas,

Phaedr. 3, 15, 18.

in-nŏcentĭa, ae, f., harmlessness.

Lit.:

ferorum animalium,

Plin. 37, 13, 77, § 201:

fumi graveolentis,

Pall. 1, 35 med. —

Transf.

In gen., blamelessness, innocence:

est innocentia affectio talis animi, quae noceat nemini,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 8, 16; id. Phil. 3, 10, 25:

rigidae innocentiae Cato erat,

Liv. 39, 40, 10:

sola innocentia vivere,

i. e. with no other support, id. 2, 3, 4:

mutuā innocentiā tutum esse,

where no one seeks to injure another, Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 59.—

In partic., uprightness, integrity, disinterestedness:

quantā innocentiā debent esse imperatores,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 13, 36:

suam innocentiam (opp. avaritiam) perpetuā vitā esse perspectam,

Caes. B, G. 1, 40.—

Collect. concr., innocent persons:

innocentiam liberare,

Cic. de Or. 1, 46, 202.

intĕgrĭtas, ātis, f. [integer], the undiminished or unimpaired condition of a thing.

Lit.

Completeness, sound ness:

corporis,

Cic. Fin. 2, 11, 34; 5, 14 fin.; cf.:

valetudinis,

id. Tusc. 5, 34: integritatis testes mihi desunt, i. e. testiculi, Phaedr, 3, 11: integritas, freedom from fever, Cels 3, 5:

saporis,

Vitr. 8, 7.—

Transf., the whole (opp. pars):

cum pars movetur, quiescente integritate,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 14, 8; id. S. 7, 16, 12:

universa philosophiae,

id. Somn. Scip. 2, 17, 17.—

Trop.

Of the intellectual powers:

non eandem esse vim neque integritatem dormientium et vigilantium nec mente nec sensu,

Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52:

integritas mentis,

soundness of mind, Dig. 28, 1, 2.—

Blamelessness, innocence, integrity:

integritas atque innocentia,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 9:

sic provinciae praefuit in pace, ut et civibus et sociis gratissima esset ejus integritas,

id. Lig. 1:

ut omnes aequitatem tuam, temperantiam, severitatem, integritatem laudent,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16:

omnes ita de tua virtute, integritate, humanitate commemorant, ut, etc.,

id. ib. 1, 1, 13:

vitae,

Nep. Phoc. 1.—

Chastity of females:

mulierem summa integritate pudicitiaque existimari,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 25; cf.

virginitatis,

Flor. 2, 6.—

Purity, correctness of language:

Latini sermonis,

Cic. Brut. 35.