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1 festivitas
I.Lit.:II.jocum, festivitatem, ferias,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 1, 3.—Transf.A.As a word of endearment (Plautinian):* B.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:C.mei patris festivitas et facilitas,
Ter. Eun. 5, 9, 18; cf. festivus, II. A.—Of speech, humor, pleasantry, jocoseness (Ciceron.;D.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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