festīvĭtas

festīvĭtas, ātis, f. [festivus], festive gayety, festivity, mirth, merriment, joy. *

Lit.:

jocum, festivitatem, ferias,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 3.—

Transf.

As a word of endearment (Plautinian):

mi animule, Mea vita, mea festivitas (for which, shortly after: voluptas mea, meus festus dies),

my joy, my delight, Plaut. Cas. 1, 47; 3, 3, 14; id. Poen. 1, 2, 176.—

A pleasant or kind demeanor, kindness:

mei patris festivitas et facilitas,

Ter. Eun. 5, 9, 18; cf. festivus, II. A.—

Of speech, humor, pleasantry, jocoseness (Ciceron.;

syn.: facetiae, lepor, sal): cum in illo genere perpetuae festivitatis ars non desideretur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 219:

festivitate et facetiis C. Julius omnibus praestitit,

id. Brut. 48, 177:

nec umquam fuit oratio lepore et festivitate conditior (shortly before: faceta et urbana),

id. de Or. 2, 56, 227:

summa festivitate et venustate,

id. ib. 1, 57, 243; id. Inv. 1, 18, 25:

imago antiquae et vernaculae festivitatis (corresp. to facetiae and lepores),

id. Fam. 9, 15, 2.—In plur.:

Gorgias his festivitatibus insolentius abutitur,

play of words, witticism, Cic. Or. 52, 176; Gell. praef. § 4.—

Post-class., a festival, feast: festivitas in cunctis oppidis celebranda, Cod. Th. 15, 5, 3; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 63.—In plur.:

sollennes, Cod. Th. 6, 8, 1: natalium principis,

ib. 6, 4, 30.

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festus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. bhas, shine; lengthened from bha-; Gr. pha-, phainô, v. for; cf. feriae (fes-iae)], orig., of or belonging to the holidays (in opp. to the working-days), solemn, festive, festal, joyful, merry.

Lit.

Adj. (syn.: sollennis, fastus).

With expressions of time:

festo die si quid prodegeris, profesto egere liceat,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10:

die festo celebri nobilique,

id. Poen. 3, 5, 13:

qui (dies) quasi deorum immortalium festi atque sollennes, apud omnes sunt celebrati,

Cic. Pis. 22, 51:

Syracusani festos dies anniversarios agunt,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107; id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1:

dies festus ludorum celeberrimus et sanctissimus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 67, § 151; id. Fin. 5, 24, 70:

lux,

Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 42; Hor. C. 4, 6, 42:

tempus,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 140; Juv. 15, 38:

observare festa sabbata,

id. 6, 159.—Hence,

Transf., of everything relating to holidays:

chori,

Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 8:

clamores,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 24:

corona,

Ov. M. 10, 598; cf.

fronde,

Verg. A. 4, 459:

dapes,

Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

mensae,

Sil. 7, 198; Val. Fl. 3, 159:

lusus,

Mart. 1, 1:

pagus,

Hor. C. 3, 18, 11:

urbs,

gay, merry, Sil. 11, 272; 12, 752:

theatra,

Ov. M. 3, 111:

Lares,

Mart. 3, 58, 23:

licentiae,

of the holidays, Quint. 6, 3, 17:

pax,

Ov. M. 2, 795; Plin. 14, 1, 1, § 23:

plebs,

Tac. A. 2, 69:

domus ornatu,

id. ib. 3, 9:

ritus,

id. H. 5, 5:

omina,

id. A. 5, 4:

cespes,

Juv. 12, 2:

janua,

id. 12, 91.—As a term of endearment:

mi animule, mea vita, mea festivitas, meus dies festus, etc.,

my holiday, Plaut. Cas. 1, 49.—

Subst.: festum, i, n., a holiday, festival; a festal banquet, feast ( poet. and late Lat. for dies festus):

cur igitur Veneris festum Vinalia dicant, Quaeritis?

Ov. F. 4, 877; 1, 190; id. M. 4, 390:

forte Jovi festum Phoebus sollenne parabat,

feast, id. F. 2, 247:

cum dii omnes ad festum magnae matris convenissent,

Lact. 1, 21, 25.—In plur.:

Idaeae festa parentis erunt,

Ov. F. 4, 182:

festa venatione absumi,

Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 91; Ov. M. 4, 33; 10, 431; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; id. Ep. 2, 2, 197; Vulg. Exod. 23, 14 al.; Greg. Mag. Homil. in Evang. 2, 26, 10; Lact. 1, 22, 24.—

Meton., public, solemn, festal, festive, joyous (post-Aug. and rare):

dolor,

Stat. S. 2, 7, 134:

festior annus,

Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 3:

festissimi dies,

Vop. Tac. 11:

aures,

i. e. gladdened, Claud. B. G. 206 (but in Stat. S. 2, 7, 90 the right read. is fata).

Festus, i, m., a Roman surname.

Sex. Pompeius Festus, a Roman grammarian of the fourth century A. D., author of a lexicographical work, De verborum significatione, in twenty books, of which only the last nine, in a very imperfect form, remain to us; with an abstract of the whole compiled by Paulus Diaconus in the eighth century. (Edited by Ottfr. Müller.)—

Portius Festus, Governor of the Roman Province of Judea, Vulg. Acts, 25, 32 al.

festus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. bhas, shine; lengthened from bha-; Gr. pha-, phainô, v. for; cf. feriae (fes-iae)], orig., of or belonging to the holidays (in opp. to the working-days), solemn, festive, festal, joyful, merry.

Lit.

Adj. (syn.: sollennis, fastus).

With expressions of time:

festo die si quid prodegeris, profesto egere liceat,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10:

die festo celebri nobilique,

id. Poen. 3, 5, 13:

qui (dies) quasi deorum immortalium festi atque sollennes, apud omnes sunt celebrati,

Cic. Pis. 22, 51:

Syracusani festos dies anniversarios agunt,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107; id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1:

dies festus ludorum celeberrimus et sanctissimus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 67, § 151; id. Fin. 5, 24, 70:

lux,

Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 42; Hor. C. 4, 6, 42:

tempus,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 140; Juv. 15, 38:

observare festa sabbata,

id. 6, 159.—Hence,

Transf., of everything relating to holidays:

chori,

Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 8:

clamores,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 24:

corona,

Ov. M. 10, 598; cf.

fronde,

Verg. A. 4, 459:

dapes,

Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

mensae,

Sil. 7, 198; Val. Fl. 3, 159:

lusus,

Mart. 1, 1:

pagus,

Hor. C. 3, 18, 11:

urbs,

gay, merry, Sil. 11, 272; 12, 752:

theatra,

Ov. M. 3, 111:

Lares,

Mart. 3, 58, 23:

licentiae,

of the holidays, Quint. 6, 3, 17:

pax,

Ov. M. 2, 795; Plin. 14, 1, 1, § 23:

plebs,

Tac. A. 2, 69:

domus ornatu,

id. ib. 3, 9:

ritus,

id. H. 5, 5:

omina,

id. A. 5, 4:

cespes,

Juv. 12, 2:

janua,

id. 12, 91.—As a term of endearment:

mi animule, mea vita, mea festivitas, meus dies festus, etc.,

my holiday, Plaut. Cas. 1, 49.—

Subst.: festum, i, n., a holiday, festival; a festal banquet, feast ( poet. and late Lat. for dies festus):

cur igitur Veneris festum Vinalia dicant, Quaeritis?

Ov. F. 4, 877; 1, 190; id. M. 4, 390:

forte Jovi festum Phoebus sollenne parabat,

feast, id. F. 2, 247:

cum dii omnes ad festum magnae matris convenissent,

Lact. 1, 21, 25.—In plur.:

Idaeae festa parentis erunt,

Ov. F. 4, 182:

festa venatione absumi,

Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 91; Ov. M. 4, 33; 10, 431; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; id. Ep. 2, 2, 197; Vulg. Exod. 23, 14 al.; Greg. Mag. Homil. in Evang. 2, 26, 10; Lact. 1, 22, 24.—

Meton., public, solemn, festal, festive, joyous (post-Aug. and rare):

dolor,

Stat. S. 2, 7, 134:

festior annus,

Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 3:

festissimi dies,

Vop. Tac. 11:

aures,

i. e. gladdened, Claud. B. G. 206 (but in Stat. S. 2, 7, 90 the right read. is fata).

Festus, i, m., a Roman surname.

Sex. Pompeius Festus, a Roman grammarian of the fourth century A. D., author of a lexicographical work, De verborum significatione, in twenty books, of which only the last nine, in a very imperfect form, remain to us; with an abstract of the whole compiled by Paulus Diaconus in the eighth century. (Edited by Ottfr. Müller.)—

Portius Festus, Governor of the Roman Province of Judea, Vulg. Acts, 25, 32 al.

festus, a, um, adj. [Sanscr. bhas, shine; lengthened from bha-; Gr. pha-, phainô, v. for; cf. feriae (fes-iae)], orig., of or belonging to the holidays (in opp. to the working-days), solemn, festive, festal, joyful, merry.

Lit.

Adj. (syn.: sollennis, fastus).

With expressions of time:

festo die si quid prodegeris, profesto egere liceat,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 10:

die festo celebri nobilique,

id. Poen. 3, 5, 13:

qui (dies) quasi deorum immortalium festi atque sollennes, apud omnes sunt celebrati,

Cic. Pis. 22, 51:

Syracusani festos dies anniversarios agunt,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107; id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1:

dies festus ludorum celeberrimus et sanctissimus,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 67, § 151; id. Fin. 5, 24, 70:

lux,

Ov. Tr. 5, 5, 42; Hor. C. 4, 6, 42:

tempus,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 140; Juv. 15, 38:

observare festa sabbata,

id. 6, 159.—Hence,

Transf., of everything relating to holidays:

chori,

Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 8:

clamores,

Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 24:

corona,

Ov. M. 10, 598; cf.

fronde,

Verg. A. 4, 459:

dapes,

Hor. Epod. 9, 1:

mensae,

Sil. 7, 198; Val. Fl. 3, 159:

lusus,

Mart. 1, 1:

pagus,

Hor. C. 3, 18, 11:

urbs,

gay, merry, Sil. 11, 272; 12, 752:

theatra,

Ov. M. 3, 111:

Lares,

Mart. 3, 58, 23:

licentiae,

of the holidays, Quint. 6, 3, 17:

pax,

Ov. M. 2, 795; Plin. 14, 1, 1, § 23:

plebs,

Tac. A. 2, 69:

domus ornatu,

id. ib. 3, 9:

ritus,

id. H. 5, 5:

omina,

id. A. 5, 4:

cespes,

Juv. 12, 2:

janua,

id. 12, 91.—As a term of endearment:

mi animule, mea vita, mea festivitas, meus dies festus, etc.,

my holiday, Plaut. Cas. 1, 49.—

Subst.: festum, i, n., a holiday, festival; a festal banquet, feast ( poet. and late Lat. for dies festus):

cur igitur Veneris festum Vinalia dicant, Quaeritis?

Ov. F. 4, 877; 1, 190; id. M. 4, 390:

forte Jovi festum Phoebus sollenne parabat,

feast, id. F. 2, 247:

cum dii omnes ad festum magnae matris convenissent,

Lact. 1, 21, 25.—In plur.:

Idaeae festa parentis erunt,

Ov. F. 4, 182:

festa venatione absumi,

Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 91; Ov. M. 4, 33; 10, 431; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; id. Ep. 2, 2, 197; Vulg. Exod. 23, 14 al.; Greg. Mag. Homil. in Evang. 2, 26, 10; Lact. 1, 22, 24.—

Meton., public, solemn, festal, festive, joyous (post-Aug. and rare):

dolor,

Stat. S. 2, 7, 134:

festior annus,

Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 3:

festissimi dies,

Vop. Tac. 11:

aures,

i. e. gladdened, Claud. B. G. 206 (but in Stat. S. 2, 7, 90 the right read. is fata).

Festus, i, m., a Roman surname.

Sex. Pompeius Festus, a Roman grammarian of the fourth century A. D., author of a lexicographical work, De verborum significatione, in twenty books, of which only the last nine, in a very imperfect form, remain to us; with an abstract of the whole compiled by Paulus Diaconus in the eighth century. (Edited by Ottfr. Müller.)—

Portius Festus, Governor of the Roman Province of Judea, Vulg. Acts, 25, 32 al.

lĕpor and lĕpos, ōris, m. [perh. root lamp-; Gr. lampô, lampros; cf. Lat. limpidus, lanterna], pleasantness, agreeableness, attractiveness, charm.

In gen.:

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.

Of behavior, pleasantness, grace, politeness, amiability:

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:

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.

sal, sălis ( neutr. collat. form of the nom. sălĕ, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26, or Ann. v. 378 Vahl.; Varr. ap. Non. 223, 17; also, in the regular form sometimes neutr. in sing., v. infra, I.; but plur. always sales, m.; cf. Neue, Formenl. 1, 697 sq.; dat. plur.: infusis salis, Fabian. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.), m. [root sal-, to stream, flow; cf. hals; perh. also found in insula, salix].

Lit., salt.

Masc.: ex sale, qui apud Carthaginienses fit, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 659 P.:

salem candidum sic facito,

id. R. R. 88; Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 8; Col. 6, 17, 7; 8, 6 Schneid. N. cr.; 12, 6, 2; 12, 21, 2 al.; Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 73; Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 95; id. Curc. 4, 4, 6; id. Pers. 3, 3, 25; Sall. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 82 P., and ap. Prisc. p. 644 ib.; Hor. S. 1, 5, 46 et saep.—Prov.:

salem cum pane edit,

Plin. 31, 8, 41, § 89.—

Neutr.: nunc vides in conviviis ita poni et sal et mel, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.; so, aliud, Fabian. ib. p. 82 P.;

tritum,

Veg. 2, 24, 4 al.; v. also infra, II.—

Doubtful gen.:

multos modios salis,

Cic. Lael. 19, 67:

(caseum) parco sale reponunt,

Verg. G. 3, 403; Caes. B. C. 2, 37:

salis vendendi arbitrium,

Liv. 29, 6; 45, 29; Hor. S. 1, 3, 14; 2, 2, 17; 2, 4, 74; Col. 7, 8, 5; Cels. 2, 24; Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 91.—

Plur.:

quin aspergi solent sales: melior fossilis quam marinus,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 6; Col. 7, 4, 8; 8, 6, 1; Pall. 9, 2 Mai; id. Nov. 19; Fabian. ap. Charis. p. 82 P.; Ov. M. 15, 286.—

Meton.

Poet., the salt water, brine, sea.

Sing., Enn. 1. 1.:

supra rorem salis edita pars est remorum,

Lucr. 4, 438:

et sale tabentes artus in litore ponunt,

Verg. A. 1, 173; 1, 35; 3, 385; 5, 848; 5, 866; 6, 697; 10, 214; Ov. P. 1, 1, 70; Val. Fl. 4, 722.—

Plur.:

sales amari,

Ov. M. 15, 286:

aequorei,

Luc. 10, 257.—

A speck on precious stones shaped like a grain of salt. — Sing.:

sal,

Plin. 37, 6, 22, § 83; 37, 8, 37, § 117; 37, 2, 10, § 28.— Plur.:

sales,

Plin. 37, 2, 8, § 22.—

Trop.

Intellectual acuteness, good sense, shrewdness, cunning, wit, facetiousness, sarcasm, a witticism, witty saying (class. in sing. and plur.;

syn.: lepos, facetiae, festivitas): (sal) adeo necessarium elementum est, ut transierit intellectus ad voluptates animi quoque. Nam ita sales appellantur, omnisque vitae lepos et summa hilaritas laborumque requies non alio magis vocabulo constat,

Plin. 31, 7, 41, § 88.

Sing.:

qui habet salem, quod in te est,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 10; cf.:

nulla venustas, Nulla in tam magno est corpore mica salis,

Cat. 86, 4:

Caesar inusitatum nostris oratoribus leporem quendam et salem est consecutus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 23, 98; cf. id. N. D. 2, 29, 74:

sale vero et facetiis Caesar vicit omnis,

id. Off. 1, 37, 133:

(litterae) tum humanitatis sparsae sale,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1:

qui (versus) dum denique habent salem ac leporem,

Cat. 16, 7:

P. Scipio omnes sale facetiisque superabat,

Cic. Brut. 34, 128; cf.:

argutiae facetissimi salis,

Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 117:

salis satis est, sannionum parum, Cic Fam. 9, 16, 10: in quo mihi videtur specimen fuisse humanitatis, salis, suavitatis, leporis,

id. Tusc. 5, 19, 55:

(Lucilius) sale multo Urbem defricuit,

Hor. S. 1, 10, 3; cf.

of the same: acerbitas et abundantia salis,

Quint. 10, 1, 94:

hic delectatur iambis, Ille Bioneïs sermonibus et sale nigro,

i. e. biting wit, sarcasm, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 60; Cat. 13, 5:

qui plurimum in scribendo et salis haberet et fellis nec candoris minus,

Plin. Ep. 3, 21, 1. —

Neutr. (ante-class.): quicquid loquitur, sal merum est, Afran. ap. Prisc. p. 659 P.; so, (puella) Charitôn mia, tota merum sal, Lucr. 4, 1162.—

Plur.:

Romani veteres atque urbani sales,

Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2:

vestri proavi Plautinos Laudavere sales,

Hor. A. P. 271; Sen. Vit. Beat. 27, 2:

periculosi sales,

id. Tranq. 1, 4:

libaboque tuos, scite Menandre, sales,

Prop. 3 (4), 21, 28:

huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales, qui in dicendo minimum quantum valent: quorum duo genera sunt, unum facetiarum, alterum dicacitatis,

Cic. Or. 26, 87; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 15; 10, 1, 117:

(Ciceronem) in salibus aliquando frigidum,

id. 12, 10, 12:

a salibus suffusis felle refugi,

Ov. Tr. 2, 565:

protervi sales,

Stat. S. 1, 6, 6:

salibus vehemens intra pomoeria natis,

Juv. 9, 11.—

(Borrowed from the use of salt as a relish.) Good taste, elegance:

tectum antiquitus constitutum plus salis quam sumptūs habebat,

Nep. Att. 13, 2.—

Sharpness, pungency, stimulus, incentive:

quae (sc. calor, sanguis) aviditatem naturali sale augent,

Plin. 10, 72, 93, § 198.