mollitia+cervicum

mollĭtĭa ( mollĭcĭa), ae, f., and mol-lĭtĭes ( mollĭcĭes), ēi, f. [mollis], movableness, pliability, flexibility, suppleness; softness (class.).

Lit.:

mollitia cervicum,

Cic. Or. 18, 59:

lapidis,

Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 162:

lanae,

id. 19, 3, 18, § 48:

carnis,

id. 9, 17, 28, § 61:

teneritas et mollitia quaedam,

Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58.—

Trop., softness, tenderness, susceptibility; weakness, irresolution; effeminacy, voluptuousness, wantonness (cf.:

inertia, desidia): quā mollitiā sum animi ac lenitate, numquam mehercule illius lacrimis ac precibus restitissem,

Cic. Sull. 6, 18:

agilitas mollitiesque naturae,

sensitive disposition, id. Att. 1, 17, 4:

frontis,

bashfulness, Plin. Ep. 6, 29, 6:

animi est ista mollities, non virtus, inopiam paulisper ferre non posse,

weakness, irresolution, Caes. B. G. 7, 77:

Niciae,

Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2:

inertiā et mollitiā animi,

Sall. C. 52, 28:

mollitia socordiaque,

id. J. 70, 5:

in munditiis, mollitiis deliciisque aetatulam agere,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 40:

civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitiam,

Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38:

mollities luxuriaque,

Just. 1, 7, 13: vocis, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 441:

Maecenas otio ac mollitiis paene ultra feminam fluens,

Vell. 2, 88, 2; id. 1, 6, 2.—Esp., unchastity, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 106:

corporis,

Tac. A. 11, 2.

mollĭtĭa ( mollĭcĭa), ae, f., and mol-lĭtĭes ( mollĭcĭes), ēi, f. [mollis], movableness, pliability, flexibility, suppleness; softness (class.).

Lit.:

mollitia cervicum,

Cic. Or. 18, 59:

lapidis,

Plin. 36, 22, 45, § 162:

lanae,

id. 19, 3, 18, § 48:

carnis,

id. 9, 17, 28, § 61:

teneritas et mollitia quaedam,

Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58.—

Trop., softness, tenderness, susceptibility; weakness, irresolution; effeminacy, voluptuousness, wantonness (cf.:

inertia, desidia): quā mollitiā sum animi ac lenitate, numquam mehercule illius lacrimis ac precibus restitissem,

Cic. Sull. 6, 18:

agilitas mollitiesque naturae,

sensitive disposition, id. Att. 1, 17, 4:

frontis,

bashfulness, Plin. Ep. 6, 29, 6:

animi est ista mollities, non virtus, inopiam paulisper ferre non posse,

weakness, irresolution, Caes. B. G. 7, 77:

Niciae,

Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2:

inertiā et mollitiā animi,

Sall. C. 52, 28:

mollitia socordiaque,

id. J. 70, 5:

in munditiis, mollitiis deliciisque aetatulam agere,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 40:

civitatum mores lapsi ad mollitiam,

Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38:

mollities luxuriaque,

Just. 1, 7, 13: vocis, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 441:

Maecenas otio ac mollitiis paene ultra feminam fluens,

Vell. 2, 88, 2; id. 1, 6, 2.—Esp., unchastity, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 106:

corporis,

Tac. A. 11, 2.

argūtĭae, ārum (the sing. argutia, ae, is rare and only among later writers; cf. Charis. p. 20, and Phocae Ars, p. 1708 P.), f. [argutus].

That which is clear to the senses, vigor of expression, liveliness, animation; of works of art: Parrhasius primus symmetriam picturae dedit, primus argutias vultūs, elegantiam capilli, etc., Plin. 35, 10, 36, §

37: argutiae operum,

id. 34, 18, 19, § 65.—Of the quick motion of the fingers (cf. argutus):

nulla mollitia cervicum, nullae argutiae digitorum,

Cic. Or. 18, 59.—Of the chattering notes of the nightingale, Plin. 10, 29, 43, § 85.—Of chattering discourse, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 19; id. Most. 1, 1, 2.—

Transf. to mental qualities.

Brightness, acuteness, wit, genius:

hujus (C. Titii) orationes tantum argutiarum, tantum urbanitatis habent, ut paene Attico stilo scriptae esse videantur. Easdem argutias in tragoedias transtulit,

Cic. Brut. 45, 167:

Demosthenes nihil Lysiae subtilitate cedit, nihil argutiis et acumine Hyperidi,

id. Or. 31, 110. —

Slyness, subtlety, cunning, shrewdness in speech or action:

sed nihil est quod illi (Graeci) non persequantur suis argutiis,

Cic. Lael. 13, 45:

cujus loquacitas habet aliquid argutiarum,

id. Leg. 1, 2, 7.—In this signif. also in the sing.:

importuna atque audax argutia,

Gell. 3, 1, 6:

levis et quasi dicax argutia,

id. 12, 2 (cf. argutiola); Pall. Insit. prooem. 1; so App. M. 1, 1.

truncus, a, um, adj [root tark-, truc-, to break, tear; cf. torqueo], maimed, mutilated, mangled, dismembered, disfigured, deprived of some of its parts (mostly poet. and perh. not ante-Aug.; syn.: mutilus, mancus).

Lit.:

trunca manu pinus regit (Polyphemum),

i. e. the trunk of a pinetree, Verg. A. 3, 659:

trunca illa et retorrida manus Mucii,

Sen. Ep. 66, 51:

nemora,

i. e. trees stripped of their branches, Stat. Th. 4, 455:

truncas mhonesto vulnere nares,

Verg. A. 6, 497:

vultus naribus auribusque,

Mart. 2, 83, 3:

frons,

deprived of its horn, Ov. M. 9, 1; 9, 86; Sil. 3, 42:

frontem lumina truncam,

deprived of its eyes, id. 9, 400:

bracchia non habuit, truncoque repandus in undas Corpore desiluit,

deprived of its limbs, Ov. M. 3, 680; cf. Just. 2, 9, 19:

puerum trunci corporis in agro Romano natum,

Liv. 41, 9, 5:

varie ex integris truncos gigni, ex truncis integros,

Plin. 7, 11, 10, § 50:

tela,

i.e. broken in pieces, Verg. A. 11, 9; cf.:

trunci enses et fractae hastae,

Stat. Th. 2, 711:

truncum lignum, i. e. hasta fracta,

Val. Fl. 6, 251: membra carmae, Ov M. 11, 560; cf.

alnus,

without oars, Val. Fl. 2, 300:

truncae atque mutilae litterae,

Gell. 17, 9, 12:

exta,

Val. Max. 1, 6, 9.—

Poet., with gen.:

animalia trunca pedum,

without feet, Verg. G. 4, 310: truncus capitis, Sil 10, 311.—

Transf.

Of things, not developed, imperfect, or wanting in their parts:

quaedam imperfecta (animalia) suisque Trunca vident numeris,

Ov. M. 1, 428:

ranae pedibus,

id. ib. 15, 376:

ipse (nanus) jactabat truncas manus,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 42—

Of members cut off:

bracchia,

Val. Fl. 4, 181:

manus,

Sen. Contr 1, 4.—

Trop., maimed, mutilated:

(Capua) urbs trunca, sine senatu, sine plebe, sine magistratibus,

Liv. 31, 29, 11:

pecus,

without a leader, Stat. Th. 5, 333:

manus vero, sine quibus trunca esset actio ac debilis, vix dici potest, quot motus habeant,

Quint. 11, 3, 85:

trunca et debilis medicina (sine rerum naturae cognitione), Cels. praef.: sermo (volucrum),

Stat. Th. 12, 478:

trunca quaedam ex Menandro,

fragments, Gell. 2, 23, 21.—Hence, subst.:

truncus, i, m., the stem, stock, bole, or trunk of a tree (without regard to its branches).

Lit.:

cibus... Per truncos ac per ramos diffunditur omnes,

Lucr. 1, 353:

quid? in arboribus, in quibus non truncus, non rami, non folia sunt denique, nisi, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 179; cf. id. Sen. 15, 52; id. N. D. 2, 47, 120; id. Lael. 13, 48; Caes. B. G. 4, 17; 7, 73, Verg. G. 2, 78; 3, 233; Hor S. 1, 8, 1; id. C. 2, 17, 27; 3, 4, 55; Ov. M. 2, 358; 8, 346; id. H. 9, 93; Col. Arb. 17, 1; Sen. Ep. 86, 17.—

Transf.

Of the human body, the trunk, the body, apart from the limbs:

status erectus et celsus, nullā mollitiā cervicum: trunco magis toto se ipse moderans,

Cic. Or. 18, 59:

nemo illum ex trunco corporis spectabat,

id. Rosc. Com. 10, 28:

recto pugnat se attollere trunco,

Ov. M. 2, 822; cf. id. ib. 7, 640:

et caput abscisum calido viventeque trunco,

Lucr. 3, 654: jacet litore truncus. Verg. A. 2, 557.—

Of a column.

The shaft, Vitr. 4, 1 med. —

The cubical trunk of a pedestal, the die or dado, Vitr. 3, 3; cf. Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 201.—

A piece cut off, as a branch of a tree for an our:

frondentes,

Val. Fl. 8, 287;

a piece of flesh for smoking (cf. trunculus),

Verg. M. 57.—

Like caudex, stipes, and the Engl. stock, for blockhead, dunce, dolt:

quī potest esse in ejusmodi trunco sapientia?

Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 84:

tamquam truncus atque stipes,

id. Pis. 9, 19. —

Trop., a trunk, stem:

quae (stirpes aegritudinis) ipso trunco everso omnes eligendae (elidendae, Kühn.) sunt,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 83.