laziness

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• One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness. (Horace)

ignāvĭa, ae, f. [id.], inactivity, laziness, idleness, sloth, listlessness, cowardice, worthlessness (syn.: socordia, desidia, inertia, pigritia, segnities; opp.: fortitudo, alacritas).

Lit. (class.):

dare argentum adulescenti, qui exaedificaret suam incohatam ignaviam,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 95: venit mihi ignavia; ea mihi tempestas fuit;

mi adventu suo grandinem imbremque attulit,

id. Most. 1, 2, 57 Lorenz ad loc.:

contraria fortitudini ignavia,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 165;

so opp. fortitudo,

id. Cat. 2, 11, 25:

inertiam, ignaviam, desidiam, luxuriam (adversariorum) proferre,

Auct. Her. 1, 5, 8:

timiditas et ignavia,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 7, 14:

ignaviam suam tenebrarum ac parietum custodiis tegere,

id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21:

socordiae sese atque ignaviae tradere,

Sall. C. 52;

so with socordia,

id. ib. 58, 4:

per luxum atque ignaviam aetatem agere,

id. J. 2, 4:

quod istic (= in te) cum ignavia est scelus,

Liv. 1, 47, 3:

quae tanta animis ignavia venit?

Verg. A. 11, 733:

copia (cibi) ignaviam affert,

Plin. 11, 14, 14, § 35:

fumo crebriore et ignavia earum (apium) excitatur ad opera,

id. 11, 16, 15, § 45:

ignavia corpus hebetat, labor firmat,

Cels. 1, 1.—Prov.:

ignaviam necessitas acuit,

Curt. 5, 4, 31.—

Transf., of things:

odoris,

i. e. weakness, Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 119.

ĭnertĭa, ae, f. [id.], want of art or skill, unskilfulness, ignorance.

Lit. (rare but class.): animi (spectantur), quemadmodum affecti sint, virtutibus, vitiis;

artibus, inertiis,

Cic. Part. 10, 35; Petr. 135, 6. —

Transf., in gen., inactivity, idleness, laziness (very freq.): inertia atque torpedo, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 2, 6:

id largiamur inertiae nostrae,

Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 68:

castigare segnitiem hominum atque inertiam,

id. ib. 1, 41, 185:

laboris,

aversion to labor, id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24:

operis,

Liv. 33, 45, 7 al. —

In an oxymoron: strenua,

Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 28; cf.

inquieta,

Sen. Tranq. 12, 2.

pī̆grĭtĭa, ae, and pī̆grĭtĭes, ēi, f. [id.], sloth, sluggishness, laziness, indolence (cf.: desidia, socordia, inertia, segnities).

Lit.:

pigritiam definiunt metum consequentis laboris,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 18:

propter pigritiam aut ignaviam,

id. Off. 1, 29, 102:

noli putare pigritiā me facere, quod non meā manu scribam,

id. Att. 15, 15: et haesitatio, Petr. 85:

nox Romanis pigritiem ad sequendum fecit,

Liv. 44, 42, 9:

lentae crimine pigritiae,

Mart. 11, 79, 2.—

Transf.

Tu das ingenuae jus mihi pigritiae, honorable repose, leisure, Mart. 12, 4, 6.—

Stomachi, weakness of the stomach, Sen. Prov. 3, 6.

pī̆grĭtĭa, ae, and pī̆grĭtĭes, ēi, f. [id.], sloth, sluggishness, laziness, indolence (cf.: desidia, socordia, inertia, segnities).

Lit.:

pigritiam definiunt metum consequentis laboris,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 18:

propter pigritiam aut ignaviam,

id. Off. 1, 29, 102:

noli putare pigritiā me facere, quod non meā manu scribam,

id. Att. 15, 15: et haesitatio, Petr. 85:

nox Romanis pigritiem ad sequendum fecit,

Liv. 44, 42, 9:

lentae crimine pigritiae,

Mart. 11, 79, 2.—

Transf.

Tu das ingenuae jus mihi pigritiae, honorable repose, leisure, Mart. 12, 4, 6.—

Stomachi, weakness of the stomach, Sen. Prov. 3, 6.

sōcordĭa (o short, Prud. Apoth. 194; cf. socors; sometimes, on account of the etymology, written also sēcordĭa), ae, f. [socors], dulness of mind, i. e.,

Weakmindedness, silliness, folly, stupidity (very rare; syn.: insipientia, stoliditas): socordiam quidam pro ignaviā posuerunt (v. II.);

Cato pro stultitiā posuit, Fest. pp. 292 and 293 Müll.: si quem socordiae argueret, stultiorem aiebat filio suo Claudio,

Suet. Claud. 3; Tac. A. 4, 35.—

Carelessness, negligence, sloth, laziness, indolence, inactivity (the predominant signif. of the word; used only in the sing.; cf. Diom. p. 314 P.; perh. only once in Cic.;

syn.: ignavia, desidia, segnities): tu ad hoc diei tempus dormitasti in otio. Quin tu abs te socordiam omnem reicis segnitiem amoves,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 6:

nisi somnum socordiamque ex pectore oculisque amovetis,

id. Ps. 1, 2, 11:

nihil loci'st segnitiae neque socordiae,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 1:

socordia atque desidia,

Auct. Her. 2, 23, 35; so (with desidia) Sall. C. 4, 1; (with ignavia) id. ib. 58, 4; (with incultus) id. J. 2, 4; (opp. industria) Tac. A. 2, 38:

nostrā cunctatione et socordiā jam huc progressus,

Liv. 22, 14, 5:

Cyrenenses tardius iere. Id socordiāne an casu accideret, parum cognovi,

Sall. J. 79, 5:

socordiāne an vinolentiā,

Tac. A. 12, 67:

fortunā per socordiam non uti,

Liv. 7, 35:

nisi felicitas in socordiam vertisset, exuere jugum potuere,

Tac. Agr. 31 fin.:

caeca ac sopita socordia,

Quint. 1, 2, 5:

Darei,

Curt. 7, 4, 3.

sŏpor, ōris, m. [Sanscr. root svap-, sleep; cf. somnus; Gr. hupnos], a deep sleep.

Lit., in gen., sleep (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.; cf.

somnus): lucrum praeposivi sopori et quieti,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 11:

cum eum cibo vinoque gravatum sopor oppressisset,

Liv. 1, 7, 5:

sopore discusso,

Curt. 6, 8, 22; 6, 10, 13; 7, 11, 18; 8, 6, 26;

but also opp. somnus: hujus (junci) semine somnum allici, sed modum servandum, ne sopor fiat,

Plin. 21, 18, 71, § 119: sopore placans artus languidos, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44:

cum suavi devinxit membra sopore Somnus,

Lucr. 4, 453; 4, 765; 4, 996:

nox erat et placidum carpebant fessa soporem Corpora,

Verg. A. 4, 522:

piger his labante languore oculos sopor operit,

Cat. 63, 37:

fessos sopor inrigat artus,

Verg. A. 3, 511:

placidum petivit soporem,

id. ib. 8, 406:

occupet ut fessi lumina victa sopor,

Tib. 1, 2, 2. —Personified, Sopor = Somnus, Verg. A. 6, 278; Prop. 1, 3, 45; Stat. Th. 12, 308. —In plur., Tib. 4, 4, 9 (Müll. sapores).—

Pregn., the sleep of death, death:

in soporem conlocastis nudos,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 148; 1, 1, 150:

aeternus,

Lucr. 3, 466:

perpetuus,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 5.—

Transf.

Stupefaction, lethargy, stupor: neque dormire excitatus, neque vigilare ebrius poterat, sed semisomno sopore... jactabatur, Cael. ap. Quint. 4, 2, 124:

temulento sopore profligatus,

id. ib. § 123.—

Drowsiness, laziness, indifference:

sopor et ignavia,

Tac. H. 2, 76; Mart. 7, 42, 4.—

Poppy-juice, opium:

e nigro papavere sopor gignitur scapo inciso,

Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 198.—

A sleepingdraught, sleeping - potion:

sopore sumpto dormiturus,

Sen. Ep. 83, 25; so (opp. venenum) id. Ben. 5, 13, 5; Front. Strat. 2, 5, 12; Nep. Dion, 2, 5.—

The temple (of the head; cf.

Germ. Schläfe): laevus,

Stat. S. 2, 3, 29.