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  • 1 volūbilitās

        volūbilitās ātis, f    [volubilis], a rapid turning, whirling, circular motion: mundi: Ipsa volubilitas libratum sustinet orbem, O.—Fig., of speech, rapidity, fluency, volubility: linguae: flumen aliis verborum volubilitasque cordi est.—Of fate, mutability, fickleness: fortunae.
    * * *
    rapid turning, whirling; circular motion; fickleness (fate); fluency (speech)

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  • 2 fācundia

        fācundia ae, f    [facundus], eloquence, fluency, command of language: tantum posse a facundiā, T.: facundiā Graecos ante Romanos fuisse, S.: praesens, H.: praeceps, H.
    * * *

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  • 3 flūmen

        flūmen inis, n    [FLV-], a flowing, flood, stream, running water: rapidus montano flumine torrens V.: languidum, H.: vivo perfundi flumine, L. secundo flumine iter facere, down stream, Cs.: adverso flumine proficisci, up stream, Cs.: flumina fontis, O.: a labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina, H.: Scamandri flumina, H.— A river: ut flumina in contrarias partīs fluxerint: moratus ad flumen, Cs.: flumen est Arar, quod, etc., Cs.: Tanain prope flumen orti, H.: Tiberinum, V.: Himellae, V.—Person., a river, river-god: Conveniunt flumina, O.: flumine Gange Edita, O.— A stream, flood: umectat flumine voltum, of tears, V.: pressis manabunt flumina mammis, of milk, V.: lactis, nectaris, O.—Fig., a flow, fluency, stream, affluence: ingeni: orationis.
    * * *
    river, stream

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  • 4 lēvitās

        lēvitās ātis, f    [2 lēvis], smoothness: in tactu esse modum levitatis.—Fig., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility: nihil levitate Aeschini cedere.
    * * *
    levity; lightness, mildness; fickleness; shallowness

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  • 5 lingua

        lingua ae, f    [old dingua, cf. Germ. Zunge; Engl. tongue], the tongue: lingua haeret metu, T.: exsectio linguae: linguā titubante loqui, O.: linguam exserere (in derision or contempt), L.— A tongue, utterance, speech, language: ignara, S.: verborum copia in nostrā lingua: Largus opum, linguā melior, V.: Latium beare divite linguā, H.: ut vitemus linguas hominum: Aetolorum linguas retundere, check, L.: Favete linguis, i. e. give attention, H.: nam lingua mali pars pessima servi, Iu.: mercedem imponere linguae, i. e. speak for pay, Iu.— Tongue, speech, dialect, language: Latina, Graeca: qui ipsorum linguā Celtae, nostrā Galli, appellantur, Cs.: dissimili linguā, S.: linguā utrāque, i. e. Greek and Latin, H.—Of animals, the voice, note, song, bark: linguae volucrum, V.: linguam praecludere (of a dog), Ph.— A tongue of land: eminet in altum lingua, L.— Tongue, garrulity, insolence: linguā promptus hostis, L.: magna, H.: materna, boasting, O.— Fluency, eloquence, readiness of speech: quibus lingua prompta, L.: Est animus tibi, est lingua, H.
    * * *
    tongue; speech, language; dialect

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  • 6 solūtiō

        solūtiō ōnis, f    [solvo], a loosing, relaxation, weakening: totius hominis.— Readiness, fluency: linguae.—Fig., a payment: rerum creditarum: iusti crediti, L.: Romae solutione impeditā fides concidit: explicatā solutione: appellare de solutionibus, Cs.
    * * *
    loosing, relaxation, weakening; payment

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  • 7 eloquentia

    eloquence, readiness of speech, fluency, persuasiveness.

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  • 8 facilitas

    făcĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [facilis], easiness, ease, facility in doing any thing.
    I.
    In gen. (mostly post-Aug.):

    haec in bonis rebus, quod alii ad alia bona sunt aptiores, facilitas nominetur, in malis proclivitas,

    inclination, disposition, Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28; cf.:

    aetatis illius (i. e. puerilis) facilitas,

    capability, Quint. 1, 12, 11:

    audendi facilitas,

    id. 12, 6, 7:

    pariendi,

    Plin. 21, 24, 95, § 167:

    oris,

    i. e. easy enunciation, Quint. 10, 7, 26:

    corporis,

    a tendency to blush, Sen. Ep. 11:

    soli,

    facility in working, Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 178:

    picea tonsili facilitate,

    id. 16, 10, 18, § 40:

    (smaragdi) ad crassitudinem sui facilitate translucida,

    i. e. facility in transmitting the rays of light, id. 37, 5, 16, § 63.—
    II.
    In partic.
    A.
    Of speech, facility or fluency of expression (post-Aug.):

    Fabianus disputabat expedite magis quam concitate, ut possis dicere, facilitatem esse illam, non celeritatem,

    Sen. Ep. 40:

    quae in oratore maxima sunt, ingenium, inventio, vis, facilitas,

    Quint. 10, 2, 12; 10, 5, 1; 10, 7, 20; 11, 1, 42; Suet. Gramm. 23 al.; cf. Quint. 10, cap. 7.—
    B.
    (Acc. to facilis, II. A.) Of character.
    1.
    In a good sense, willingness, readiness, good-nature, courteousness, affability (freq. in Cic.;

    syn.: lenitas, humanitas): male docet te mea facilitas multa,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 35:

    si illius comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,

    Cic. Mur. 31, 66; cf. id. Lael. 18, 66:

    pro tua facilitate et humanitate,

    id. Fam. 13, 24, 2:

    facilitas in audiendo,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 21; cf.:

    facilitas et lenitudo animi,

    id. Off. 1, 25, 88 Orell. N. cr.:

    facilitas indulgentiaque,

    Suet. Caes. 72:

    facilitate par infimis esse,

    Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41:

    sermonis,

    id. Att. 12, 40, 2:

    magis id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit,

    id. de Or. 2, 4, 15:

    actio facilitatem significans,

    id. ib. 2, 43, 184.—
    2.
    In a bad sense, levity, heedlessness, Suet. Claud. 29; cf.:

    fornicationis,

    Vulg. Jerem. 3, 9.

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  • 9 facundia

    fācundĭa, ae, f. [facundus], eloquence, fluency (like facundus, not freq. till after the Aug. period;

    not in Cic., Caes., or Liv.): hic actor tantum poterit a facundia,

    Ter. Heaut. prol. 13:

    facundia Graecos, gloria belli Gallos ante Romanos fuisse,

    Sall. C. 53, 3; so,

    Graeca,

    id. J. 63, 3:

    Graeca Latinaque,

    Suet. Calig. 20; cf. Quint. 12, 10, 27; Plin. 7, 30, 31, § 117: alere facundiam, Quint. prooem. § 23; Hor. C. 4, 7, 21; Quint. 2, 16, 10; 8, 1, 3; 10, 1, 80 et saep.; Tac. A. 11, 6; Gell. 11, 13, 10; 18, 5, 1; 19, 9, 7 al.—In plur., Gell. 3, 17, 1.— Transf., of a person, Ov. P. 1, 2, 69.

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  • 10 facundus

    fācundus, a, um, adj. [fari], that speaks with ease or fluency, eloquent (syn.: disertus, eloquens;

    loquax, dicax): qui facile fantur, facundi dicti,

    Varr. L. L. 6, § 52 Müll. (not freq. till after the Aug. period; not in Cic. or Caes.; cf. facundia).
    I.
    Prop.:

    satis facundu's: sed jam fieri dictis compendium volo,

    Plaut. Capt. 5, 2, 12: suavis homo, facundus, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 250 ed. Vahl.); Sall. J. 95, 3: loquax magis quam facundus, id. ap. Quint. 5, 2, 2; and ap. Gell. 1, 15, 13:

    Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis,

    Hor. C. 1, 10, 1:

    Ulixes,

    Ov. M. 13, 92:

    facundum faciebat amor,

    id. ib. 6, 469:

    Rufus, vir facundus,

    Tac. H. 1, 8:

    facundus et promptus,

    Suet. Calig. 53 et saep.— Comp.:

    in omnibus gentibus alius alio facundior habetur,

    Quint. 12, 10, 44.— Sup.:

    facundissimus quisque,

    Quint. 12, 2, 27.—
    II.
    Transf., of things:

    ut ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda,

    Liv. 28, 25 fin. (al. fecunda):

    lingua,

    Hor. C. 4, 1, 35:

    ōs,

    Ov. F. 5, 698:

    vox,

    id. ib. 4, 245: Juv. 10, 274:

    Gallia,

    id. 15, 111:

    facunda et composita oratio,

    Sall. J. 85, 26:

    dictum,

    Ov. M. 13, 127:

    versus,

    Mart. 12, 43, 1:

    antiqua comoedia facundissimae libertatis,

    Quint. 10, 1, 65.—Hence, adv.: fācunde, with eloquence, eloquently:

    nimis facete nimisque facunde mala es,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 5:

    quamvis facunde loqui,

    id. Trin. 2, 2, 99:

    alloqui,

    Liv. 28, 18, 6:

    exsequi aliquid,

    Tac. A. 12, 58:

    miseratur,

    id. ib. 1, 39.— Sup.:

    describere locum,

    Sen. Suas. 2 med.:

    accusare vitia,

    Gell. 13, 8, 5.

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  • 11 fluentia

    flŭentĭa, ae. f. [fluo], a flowing, fluency (trop.):

    loquendi,

    Amm. 30, 4, 10.

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  • 12 flumen

    flūmen, ĭnis, n. [id.], a flowing of water; and concr., a flood, stream, flowing or running water (syn.: fluvius, amnis, rivus).
    I.
    In gen. (mostly poet.): Romane, aquam Albanam cave lacu contineri, cave in mare manare suo flumine sinas, an old prophetic formula ap. Liv. 5, 16, 9:

    rapidus montano flumine torrens,

    Verg. A. 2, 305; cf. Ov. R. Am. 651:

    visendus ater flumine languido Cocytos errans,

    Hor. C. 2, 14, 17:

    inde sequemur Ipsius amnis iter, donec nos flumine certo Perferat,

    Val. Fl. 8, 189: et Tiberis flumen vomit in mare salsum, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 453 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

    teque pater Tiberine tuo cum flumine sancto,

    id. ib. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 55 ib.):

    donec me flumine vivo Abluero,

    in a living, running stream, Verg. A. 2, 719; cf.: quin tu ante vivo perfunderis flumine? Auct. ap. Liv. 1, 45, 6 (for which:

    aqua viva,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 123 Müll.).—In plur.:

    nymphae venas et flumina fontis Elicuere sui,

    streams, Ov. M. 14, 788:

    frigida Scamandri,

    Hor. Epod. 13, 14:

    Symaethia circum Flumina,

    Verg. A. 9, 585:

    limosa potat,

    Ov. M. 1, 634; cf.:

    Tantalus a labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina,

    Hor. S. 1, 1, 69:

    maritima immittere in piscinas,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9.
    II.
    In partic., a river.
    A.
    Lit. (the predominant signif. of the word both in prose and poetry): quod per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 177 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

    ut flumina in contrarias partes fluxerint,

    Cic. Div. 1, 35, 78:

    Scipio biduum moratus ad flumen, quod inter eum et Domitii castra fluebat,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1:

    aurea flumina,

    Lucr. 5, 911:

    habet non tantum venas aquarum terra, ex quibus corrivatis flumina effici possunt, sed et amnes magnitudinis vastae, etc.,

    Sen. Q. N. 3, 19; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 5:

    nec ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi,

    id. Leg. 2, 3, 6:

    nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus,

    id. N. D. 2, 60, 152:

    una pars (Galliae) initium capit a flumine Rhodano, continetur Garumna flumine... attingit etiam flumen Rhenum, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 6 sq.; 1, 2, 7:

    inter montem Juram et flumen Rhodanum,

    id. ib. 1, 6, 1:

    flumen est Arar, quod, etc.,

    id. ib. 1, 12, 1:

    flumen Dubis,

    id. ib. 1, 38, 4:

    non Seres, non Tanain prope flumen orti,

    Hor. C. 4, 15, 24:

    Veliternos ad Asturae flumen Maenius fudit,

    Liv. 8, 13, 5 Drak. N. cr.:

    terrarum situs et flumina dicere,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 252:

    secundo flumine ad Lutetiam iter facere coepit,

    with the stream, Caes. B. G. 7, 58, 5 (cf. secundus, 2. a.):

    magnum ire agmen adverso flumine,

    against the stream, Caes. B. G. 7, 60, 3; cf. Verg. G. 1, 201; Liv. 24, 40. —Prov.:

    flumine vicino stultus sitit, like,

    starves in the midst of plenty, Petr. Fragm. p. 899 Burm.—
    2.
    Transf., of other things which flow in streams or like streams, a stream, flood ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    sanguinis,

    Lucr. 2, 354; 4, 1029:

    largoque humectat flumine vultum,

    flood of tears, Verg. A. 1, 465:

    laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis,

    streams of milk, id. G. 3, 310:

    flumina jam lactis, jam flumina nectaris,

    Ov. M. 1, 111: rigido concussae flumine nubes Exonerabantur, a torrent of rain, Petr. poët. Sat. 123; cf.:

    ut picis e caelo demissum flumen,

    a stream of pitch, Lucr. 6, 257:

    magnesia flumine saxa,

    in the magnetic stream, id. 6, 1064:

    effusaeque ruunt inopino flumine turbae,

    i. e. in a vast stream, Sil. 12, 185; cf. Verg. A. 11, 236:

    aëris,

    a current of air, App. de Mund. p. 61, 33 Elm. p. 258 Bip.—
    B.
    Trop., of expression, a flow, fluency, stream:

    orationis flumine reprehensoris convicia diluuntur,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20:

    flumen orationis aureum,

    id. Ac. 2, 38, 119:

    orationis,

    id. de Or. 2, 15, 62; cf.:

    flumen verborum volubili tasque,

    id. Or. 16, 53:

    gravissimorum op timorumque verborum,

    id. de Or. 2, 45, 188:

    inanium verborum,

    id. N. D. 2, 1, 1:

    Lysias... puro fonti quam magno flumini propior,

    Quint. 10, 1, 78; 9, 4, 61; cf. id. 10, 1, 61; Petr. 5 fin. —And fig.:

    neque concipere neque edere partum mens potest, nisi ingenti flumine litterarum inundata,

    Petr. 118.

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  • 13 laev

    1.
    lĕvĭtas, ātis, f. [1. levis], lightness, as to weight.
    I.
    Lit. (rare):

    plumarum,

    Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745:

    armorum,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 34:

    nulli fruticum levitas major,

    Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—
    * B.
    Transf., poet., movableness, mobility:

    Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane,

    Ov. F. 2, 673.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.):

    quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius?

    Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9:

    temere assentientium,

    id. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

    in populari ratione,

    id. Brut. 27, 103:

    mobilitas et levitas animi,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 1:

    ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est,

    lightness of mind, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

    amatoriis levitatibus dediti,

    frivolities, id. Fin. 1, 18, 62:

    manet in rebus temere congestis levitas,

    Quint. 10, 3, 17:

    contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.—
    B.
    In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare):

    opinionis,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.
    2.
    lēvĭtas ( laev-), ātis, f. [2. lēvis], smoothness.
    I.
    Lit. (class.):

    speculorum,

    Cic. Univ. 14; id. de Or. 3, 25, 99; id. Univ. 6; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7:

    intestinorum,

    slipperiness, lubricity, Cels. 4, 16; 2, 8.—
    II.
    Trop., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility:

    Demosthenes nihil levitate Aeschini et splendore verborum cedit,

    Cic. Or. 31, 110:

    verborum,

    Quint. 10, 1, 52:

    effeminata,

    id. 8, 3, 6.

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  • 14 levitas

    1.
    lĕvĭtas, ātis, f. [1. levis], lightness, as to weight.
    I.
    Lit. (rare):

    plumarum,

    Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745:

    armorum,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 34:

    nulli fruticum levitas major,

    Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—
    * B.
    Transf., poet., movableness, mobility:

    Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane,

    Ov. F. 2, 673.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.):

    quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius?

    Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9:

    temere assentientium,

    id. Ac. 2, 38, 120:

    in populari ratione,

    id. Brut. 27, 103:

    mobilitas et levitas animi,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 1:

    ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est,

    lightness of mind, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90:

    amatoriis levitatibus dediti,

    frivolities, id. Fin. 1, 18, 62:

    manet in rebus temere congestis levitas,

    Quint. 10, 3, 17:

    contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.—
    B.
    In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare):

    opinionis,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.
    2.
    lēvĭtas ( laev-), ātis, f. [2. lēvis], smoothness.
    I.
    Lit. (class.):

    speculorum,

    Cic. Univ. 14; id. de Or. 3, 25, 99; id. Univ. 6; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7:

    intestinorum,

    slipperiness, lubricity, Cels. 4, 16; 2, 8.—
    II.
    Trop., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility:

    Demosthenes nihil levitate Aeschini et splendore verborum cedit,

    Cic. Or. 31, 110:

    verborum,

    Quint. 10, 1, 52:

    effeminata,

    id. 8, 3, 6.

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  • 15 loquentia

    lŏquentĭa, ae, f. [loquor], a talking, discoursing, readiness in speaking, fluency of speech (post-Aug.):

    Julius Candidus non invenuste solet dicere, aliud esse eloquentiam, aliud loquentiam,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 5; satis loquentiae, sapientiae parum, Val. Prob. ap. Gell. 1, 15, 18.

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  • 16 profluentia

    prōflŭentĭa, ae, f. [profluo], a flowing forth (trop.):

    inanis quaedam profluentia loquendi,

    a stream of words, fluency, Cic. Part. 23, 81.

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  • 17 volubilitas

    vŏlūbĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [volubilis], a rapid [p. 2012] whirling motion.
    I.
    Lit.:

    mundi,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49; id. Fat. 19, 43; id. Univ. 10; Ov. F. 6, 271; App. Asclep. p. 100, 41.—
    II.
    Transf., roundness, round form:

    fracta capitis latissima,

    Ov. M. 12, 434.—
    III.
    Trop.
    A.
    Of speech, rapidity, fluency, volubility:

    linguae volubilitas,

    Cic. Planc. 25, 62:

    flumen aliis verborum volubilitasque cordi est,

    id. Or. 16, 53; id. de Or. 1, 5, 17:

    nimia vocis,

    Quint. 11, 3, 52 (opp. tarditas); 10, 1, 8; Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 4.—
    B.
    Of fate, changeableness, mutability:

    quod temere fit caeco casu et volubilitate fortunae,

    Cic. Div. 2, 6, 15; Plin. 37, 1, 2, § 3.

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