weakness

crūdus, a, um, adj. [root kru-, of Gr. kruos; cf. cruor, crudelis], bloody, bleeding, trickling with blood, etc.

Prop. (so rare):

vulnus,

Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11:

vulnera,

Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; id. P. 1, 3, 16.—

Transf.

Of food, raw, not cooked: quid tu curas, utrum [p. 485] crudum an coctum edim? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 15:

exta,

Liv. 29, 27, 5:

carnem mandere,

Suet. Ner. 37.—So also of undigested food:

pavo,

Juv. 1, 143; cf.

trop.: lectio non cruda sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta,

Quint. 10, 1, 19;

and, alvus,

Cato, R. R. 125:

qui crudum ructat,

i. e. when undigested food rises in the stomach, Cels. 1, 2; v. ructo.— Transf., of persons suffering from indigestion, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; Quint. 11, 3, 27; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49; id. Ep. 1, 6, 61:

crudior,

Cic. Clu. 60, 168; cf. cruditas; so,

bos,

Hor. Epod. 8, 6 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, in a pun, Mart. 3, 13, 3 sq.—

In gen., of all physical or moral crudeness, immaturity, roughness, etc.

Lit.

Unripe, immature, crude:

poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt,

Cic. Sen. 19, 71:

pruna (opp. maturissima),

Col. 12, 10, 3:

muria (opp. matura),

id. 12, 6, 2 al.:

palmes,

Luc. 4, 317 (viridis, Schol.);

of an abscess,

not mature, Cels. 5, 28, 11:

puella,

Mart. 8, 64, 11; cf. Hor. C. 3, 11, 12:

funera nepotis,

premature, early, Stat. Th. 9, 391; cf. id. Achill. 1, 478:

amor,

yet young, fresh, id. Th. 2, 341; cf.:

crudum adhuc servitium,

Tac. A. 1, 8 fin.:

adhuc studia,

Petr. 4:

crudi sine viribus anni,

Sil. 12, 348:

juventus,

not yet armed, id. 3, 302; Claud. Cons. Hon. 3, 42.—

Opp. to age, and the weakness arising from age, fresh, vigorous:

jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus,

Verg. A. 6, 304;

imitated by Tac.: quibus cruda ac viridis senectus,

Tac. Agr. 29: cf.

meus,

Sil. 5, 569.—

Unprepared, immature, raw, crude:

crudum et immotum solum,

Col. 2, 2, 25; cf. Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179:

pix,

Col. 12, 20, 6:

corium,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 116 Müll.; for which, poet., taurus, Val. Fl. 4, 250;

and, caestus,

made of raw hide, undressed leather, Verg. A. 5, 69:

rudis cortice crudo hasta,

id. ib. 9, 743.—Of verses, unpolished, rude:

junctura addita crudis (numeris),

Pers. 1, 92 (cf.:

si forte aliquid decoctius audis,

id. 1, 125).—Of the voice, rough, hoarse:

quia crudus fuerit,

Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 125.—

Trop.

Raw, not prepared or matured:

ut cibos mansos ac prope liquefactos demittimus, quo facilius digerantur, ita lectio non cruda, sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta memoriae tradatur,

Quint. 10, 1, 19.—

Rough, unfeeling, cruel, merciless ( poet.).

Of personal subjects:

dicat me Crudum virum esse,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 14; id. Poen. 5, 2, 148; Ov. M. 4, 240:

Getae,

id. Tr. 5, 3, 8:

cena, crude Thyesta, tua,

Mart. 4, 49, 4:

crudus et leti artifex,

Sen. Hippol. 1220.—More freq.,

Of things as subjects:

bella,

Ov. Am. 3, 8, 58:

ensis,

Verg. A. 10, 682; cf. Sil. 7, 113; Stat. Th. 10, 342:

tyrannis,

Juv. 8, 223: crudissimum pistrinum, most rude, uncultivated, Cassius ap. Suet. Aug. 4.— Adv. not in use.

dēbĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [debilis], lameness, [p. 516] debility, infirmity, weakness (good prose).

Lit.:

linguae,

Cic. Pis. 1:

membrorum,

Liv. 33, 2: pedis, Labeo ap. Gell. 4, 2, 4:

pedum,

Tac. H. 1, 9: aliqua corporis, * Suet. Calig. 26 fin. et saep.— Absol.:

bonum integritas corporis, miserum debilitas,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84; so id. Tusc. 3, 34; id. de Inv. 1, 25, 36; Liv. 2, 36; Cels. 5, 26, 28; Juv. 14, 156; Quint. 5, 12, 19; Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 9 al.— In plur.:

a se dolores, morbos, debilitates repellere,

Cic. Fin. 4, 8 fin.; Gell. 7, 1, 7; Arnob. 1, 46 sq.—

Trop.:

animi,

Cic. Fin. 1, 15:

mollis debilitate Galliambus,

Mart. 2, 86, 5.

dēbĭlĭtātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a laming, maiming; weakness (rare).

Lit.:

praemium debilitationis consecutus, i. e. of mutilation of nose and ears,

App. M. 2, p. 128, 15.—

Trop.: animi, * Cic. Pis. 36, 88.

dēfectus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from deficio.

dēfectus, ūs, m. [deficio].

(For defectio, no. I.) Defection, revolt:

magno animo defectum eorum tulit,

Curt. 7, 19, 39 Mützell.:

legionum,

Capitol. Macr. 8.—

( = defectio, no. III.) A failing, failure, lack, disappearance (freq. in the elder Pliny;

elsewhere rare): lactis (mammae),

Plin. 20, 23, 96, § 256:

stomachi,

weakness, id. 19, 5, 29, § 92:

animi,

a swoon, id. 20, 2, 6, § 12:

albicante purpurae defectu,

fading away into white, id. 37, 9, 40, § 123:

in tanto defectu rerum,

freedom from occupation, Amm. 16, 5, 5. Of the eclipsing of the heavenly bodies:

solis,

Lucr. 5, 751; imitated by Verg. G. 2, 478:

ejus (sc. lunae) species ac forma mutatur tum crescendo, tum defectibus in initia recurrendo,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19 fin.

dissŏlūtĭo, ōnis, f. [dissolvo], a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution (good prose).

Lit.:

navigii,

Tac. A. 14, 5:

naturae (mors),

Cic. Leg. 1, 11; id. Fin. 5, 11, 31; cf. id. ib. 2, 31:

stomachi,

i. e. looseness, Plin. 20, 22, 91, § 248.—

Trop.

In gen., an abolishing, a destruction:

legum omnium,

Cic. Phil. 1, 9:

imperii,

Tac. A. 13, 50.— Absol., ruin, Vulg. Isa. 8, 22.

In partic.

A reply, refutation:

criminum,

Cic. Clu. 1, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 1, 3, 4.—

(Acc. to dissolutus, A.) As rhet. t. t., want of connection, interruption:

constructio verborum tum conjunctionibus copuletur, tum dissolutionibus relaxetur,

Cic. Part. 6, 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 50; Auct. Her. 4, 30.—

(Acc. to dissolutus, B.) Of character, looseness, i. e. weakness, effeminacy, frivolity; dissoluteness:

si humanitas appellanda est in acerbissima injuria (sc. vindicanda) remissio animi ac dissolutio,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9; so,

judiciorum,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 59 fin.; Treb. Pol. XXX. Tyr. 23:

dissolutio et languor,

Sen. Ep. 3 fin.; cf.

animorum,

id. Cons. Sap. 4.

haedus (less correctly hoedus, and archaic aedus or ēdus; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 19, and see the letter H; Sabine, fedus, like fircus for hircus, cf. Varr. L.L. 5, § 97 Müll., and see the letter F), i, m. [Sanscr. huda, ram; O. H. Germ. Geiz; cf. Gr. chimaros], a young goat, a kid (cf.: hircus, caper).

Lit., Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 4; 8; Cic. de Sen. 16, 56; Verg. G. 4, 10; Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; id. Epod. 2, 60; Mart. 10, 87, 17.—As a fig. for wantonness:

tenero lascivior haedo,

Ov. M. 13, 791;

as a fig. of weakness,

Lucr. 3, 7.—

Transf., plur.: Haedi, a small double star in the hand of the Waggoner (Auriga), Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 43, 110; so in plur., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 8; Col. 11, 2, 73:

pluviales Haedi,

Verg. A. 9,668; cf.

nimbosi,

Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 13. —In sing.:

purus et Orion, purus et Haedus erit,

Prop. 2, 26 (3, 22), 56.

exīlĭtas, ātis, f. [exilis], thinness, meagreness, weakness, poorness (class.):

aculei apum,

Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 3:

foliorum,

id. 24, 19, 118, § 178:

soli,

Col. 18, 16, 6:

femineae vocis,

Quint. 1, 11, 1; cf. id. 11, 3, 19:

quarundam litterarum (opp. pinguitudo),

id. 1, 11, 4 —

Transf., of speech, etc.:

in dicendo (opp. ubertatem et copiam),

Cic. de Or. 1, 12, 50; cf. id. Brut. 82, 284.

fessus, a, um, P. a. [cf. Sanscr. hā-, gahāmi, relinquo; Gr. chiros, chêra, chôris; Lat. ad-fatim, fatigo], wearied, tired, fatigued; worn out, weak, feeble, infirm (class.; esp. freq. in poets; syn.: fatigatus, defessus, lassus, languidus).

Prop., of living beings:

Romani quamquam itinere atque opere castrorum et proelio fessi lassique erant, tamen, etc.,

Sall. J. 53, 5:

de via fessus,

Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 1:

fessum inedia fluctibusque recreare,

id. Planc. 10, 26:

Veientes bello fessi,

id. Div. 1, 44, 100:

militiā fessae cohortes,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 38:

plorando fessus sum,

Cic. Att. 15, 9, 1:

satiate videndi,

Lucr. 2, 1038:

curāque viāque,

Ov. M. 11, 274:

somno,

Tib. 1, 3, 88:

malis,

Ov. M. 9, 293:

aetate,

Verg. A. 2, 596; cf.

annis,

Ov. M. 9, 440:

valetudinibus,

Tac. H. 3, 2:

fessi vomere tauri,

Hor. C. 3, 13, 11:

elephanti fessi aegritudine,

Plin. 8, 1, 1, § 3:

exercito corpore fessus,

Sall. J. 71, 1; 70, 2:

cum tibi librum Sollicito damus aut fesso,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 221:

inde Rubos fessi pervenimus,

id. S. 1, 5, 94; so,

viator,

id. ib. 1, 5, 17:

pastor,

id. C. 3, 29, 22:

Graii (sc. bello),

id. ib. 2, 4, 11:

boves,

id. Epod. 2, 63.—

With gen. ( poet.):

fessi rerum,

exhausted with events, misfortunes, Verg. A. 1, 178:

fessus bellique viaeque,

Stat. Th. 3, 395:

trepidi rerum fessique salutis,

despairing of safety, Sil. 2, 234.—With acc.:

agmina fessa gradum,

Sil. 4, 40.—

Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

alter fessum vulnere, fessum cursu trahens corpus,

Liv. 1, 25, 11; cf. Hor. C. 2, 7, 18; Lucr. 4, 848:

(Phoebus) qui salutari levat arte fessos Corporis artus,

i. e. sick, diseased, Hor. Carm. Sec. 63:

vox fessa loquendo,

Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 85:

fessa aetas,

i. e. the weakness of age, Tac. A. 14, 33:

fessa aetate Galbae,

id. H. 1, 12:

domus aetatis spatio ne fessa vetusto Obruat,

worn out, decayed, Lucr. 3, 774; cf. id. 5, 308:

cardines fessi et turbati,

Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 120:

(amnes) In mare deducunt fessas erroribus undas,

Ov. M. 1, 582:

naves,

Verg. A. 1, 168; 5, 29:

puppes,

Ov. M. 6, 519; Tib. 2, 5, 46:

carinae,

Ov. M. 11, 393; id. A. A. 3, 748:

vela,

Prop. 3 (4), 21, 19: fessa dies, spent, i. e. drawing to a close, Stat. S. 2, 2, 48:

fessae res,

critical, precarious, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 18;

also,

misfortunes, calamities, Verg. A. 3, 145:

rebus succurite fessis,

id. ib. 11, 335:

deligendum esse qui fessis rebus succurreret,

Tac. A. 15, 50.

frăgĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [fragilis], brittleness, fragility.

Lit.:

tus probatur candore, amplitudine, fragilitate,

Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 65:

tenuiora ferramenta oleo restingui mos est, ne aqua in fragilitatem durentur,

id. 34, 14, 41, § 146.—

Transf. (acc. to fragilis, II.), weakness, frailness, frailty:

humani generis imbecillitatem fragilitatemque extimescere,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 3:

mortalitatis,

Plin. Ep. 4, 24, 2:

naturae communis, Auct. Or. pro Marcello, 7, 22: fidei humanae,

App. M. 9, p. 225.

H, h, the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet and the weakest guttural. The sign is borrowed from the Greek, in which H was the old form of the spiritus asper, corresp. to the Latin H-sound (HEKATON, hekaton, ÊOS, hos, etc.). Even some of the ancients doubted whether the Latin H was properly a letter:

si H littera est, non nota,

Quint. 1, 5, 19; cf.:

H litteram, sive illam spiritum magis quam litteram dici oportet, etc.,

Gell. 2, 3, 1. Before the fall of the republic, the sound of H before vowels became so weak that it was frequently omitted in writing; and this weakness became more marked in many words in the time of the empire; cf.: aheneus and aeneus; cohors and coörs; prehendo and prendo; vehemens and vemens, etc. (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 96 sqq.).As an initial and medial, H may be combined with any vowel, but the orthography, in this respect, was inconstant: thus we have herus and erus; honus, honera, and onus, onera; harundo and arundo; and even hac for ac (Inscr. Orell. 23); aruspex and haruspex; ercisco, erctum, and hercisco, herctum; aheneus and aëneus; Annibal and Hannibal; Adria and Hadria, etc.; v. Gell. l. l.—As a sign for the aspiration of the consonants c, p, r, and t (as in Greek the aspirates ch, ph, th were originally designated by KH, HH, TH), H first came into use in the seventh century of Rome; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 160; and v. the letter C.— Medial h is often dropped.—As a final, h occurs only in the interjections ah and vah.In the formation of words, h was changed into c before t, as tractum from traho; vectum from veho; and coalesced with s into x, as traxi, vexi; cf. also onyx from onych-s; v. the letter X.As an abbreviation, H. denotes hic, haec, hoc, hujus, etc.; habet, heres, honor, etc. HH. heredes. H. AQ. hic acquiescit. H. B. M. heredes bene merenti. H. C. Hispania citerior or hic condiderunt. H. E. T. heres ex testamento. H. F. C. heres faciundum curavit. H. L. hunc locum. H. L. ET. M. H. N. S. hic locus et monumentum heredem non sequitur. H. M. S. D. M. hoc monumentum sine dolo malo. H. S. E. hic situs est. H. S. F. hoc sibi fecit, etc.; v. Inscr. Orell. II. p. 461 sq.

for sestertium does not strictly belong here, because H is not the letter of that shape, but the numeral II. crossed; v. sestertius init.

H, h, the eighth letter of the Latin alphabet and the weakest guttural. The sign is borrowed from the Greek, in which H was the old form of the spiritus asper, corresp. to the Latin H-sound (HEKATON, hekaton, ÊOS, hos, etc.). Even some of the ancients doubted whether the Latin H was properly a letter:

si H littera est, non nota,

Quint. 1, 5, 19; cf.:

H litteram, sive illam spiritum magis quam litteram dici oportet, etc.,

Gell. 2, 3, 1. Before the fall of the republic, the sound of H before vowels became so weak that it was frequently omitted in writing; and this weakness became more marked in many words in the time of the empire; cf.: aheneus and aeneus; cohors and coörs; prehendo and prendo; vehemens and vemens, etc. (v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 96 sqq.).As an initial and medial, H may be combined with any vowel, but the orthography, in this respect, was inconstant: thus we have herus and erus; honus, honera, and onus, onera; harundo and arundo; and even hac for ac (Inscr. Orell. 23); aruspex and haruspex; ercisco, erctum, and hercisco, herctum; aheneus and aëneus; Annibal and Hannibal; Adria and Hadria, etc.; v. Gell. l. l.—As a sign for the aspiration of the consonants c, p, r, and t (as in Greek the aspirates ch, ph, th were originally designated by KH, HH, TH), H first came into use in the seventh century of Rome; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 160; and v. the letter C.— Medial h is often dropped.—As a final, h occurs only in the interjections ah and vah.In the formation of words, h was changed into c before t, as tractum from traho; vectum from veho; and coalesced with s into x, as traxi, vexi; cf. also onyx from onych-s; v. the letter X.As an abbreviation, H. denotes hic, haec, hoc, hujus, etc.; habet, heres, honor, etc. HH. heredes. H. AQ. hic acquiescit. H. B. M. heredes bene merenti. H. C. Hispania citerior or hic condiderunt. H. E. T. heres ex testamento. H. F. C. heres faciundum curavit. H. L. hunc locum. H. L. ET. M. H. N. S. hic locus et monumentum heredem non sequitur. H. M. S. D. M. hoc monumentum sine dolo malo. H. S. E. hic situs est. H. S. F. hoc sibi fecit, etc.; v. Inscr. Orell. II. p. 461 sq.

for sestertium does not strictly belong here, because H is not the letter of that shape, but the numeral II. crossed; v. sestertius init.

haedus (less correctly hoedus, and archaic aedus or ēdus; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 19, and see the letter H; Sabine, fedus, like fircus for hircus, cf. Varr. L.L. 5, § 97 Müll., and see the letter F), i, m. [Sanscr. huda, ram; O. H. Germ. Geiz; cf. Gr. chimaros], a young goat, a kid (cf.: hircus, caper).

Lit., Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 4; 8; Cic. de Sen. 16, 56; Verg. G. 4, 10; Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; id. Epod. 2, 60; Mart. 10, 87, 17.—As a fig. for wantonness:

tenero lascivior haedo,

Ov. M. 13, 791;

as a fig. of weakness,

Lucr. 3, 7.—

Transf., plur.: Haedi, a small double star in the hand of the Waggoner (Auriga), Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 43, 110; so in plur., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 8; Col. 11, 2, 73:

pluviales Haedi,

Verg. A. 9,668; cf.

nimbosi,

Ov. Tr. 1, 11, 13. —In sing.:

purus et Orion, purus et Haedus erit,

Prop. 2, 26 (3, 22), 56.

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.

imbēcillĭtas ( inb-), ātis, f. [imbecillus], weakness, feebleness (class.; cf. infirmitas).

Of the body: Tulliae meae morbus et imbecillitas corporis me exanimat. Cic. Att. 11, 6, 4:

virium (with infirmitas laterum),

id. Brut. 55, 202:

valetudinis,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 5:

Niciae nostri (with mollitia),

id. Att. 12, 26, 2; Suet. Gramm. 14;

with senium,

id. Calig. 44: imbecillitate Augusti [p. 889] nuntiata, i. e. indisposition, id. Tib. 11:

qui suae imbecillitati sanitatis appellationem, quae est maxime contraria, optendant,

Quint. 12, 10, 15:

materiae,

Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 2.—

Transf., of condition as regards ability, powerlessness, impotency, helplessness, imbecility:

utrum propter imbecillitatem atque inopiam desiderata sit amicitia,

Cic. Lael. 8, 26; 9, 29; 32; id. Rep. 1, 25, 39; 3, 14; cf.:

humani generis imbecillitatem fragilitatemque extimescere,

id. Tusc. 5, 1, 3.—

Of the mind:

animi,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9:

ingenii,

Plin. Ep. 4, 18, 1:

consilii,

Cic. Off. 1, 32, 117:

magistratuum,

id. Fam. 1, 4, 3:

fallit plerumque, quod probitas vocatur, quae est imbecillitas,

Quint. 6, 4, 12:

neque illos imbecillitatis damnandos,

Tac. A. 4, 8.

imbēcillĭtas ( inb-), ātis, f. [imbecillus], weakness, feebleness (class.; cf. infirmitas).

Of the body: Tulliae meae morbus et imbecillitas corporis me exanimat. Cic. Att. 11, 6, 4:

virium (with infirmitas laterum),

id. Brut. 55, 202:

valetudinis,

id. Fam. 7, 1, 5:

Niciae nostri (with mollitia),

id. Att. 12, 26, 2; Suet. Gramm. 14;

with senium,

id. Calig. 44: imbecillitate Augusti [p. 889] nuntiata, i. e. indisposition, id. Tib. 11:

qui suae imbecillitati sanitatis appellationem, quae est maxime contraria, optendant,

Quint. 12, 10, 15:

materiae,

Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 2.—

Transf., of condition as regards ability, powerlessness, impotency, helplessness, imbecility:

utrum propter imbecillitatem atque inopiam desiderata sit amicitia,

Cic. Lael. 8, 26; 9, 29; 32; id. Rep. 1, 25, 39; 3, 14; cf.:

humani generis imbecillitatem fragilitatemque extimescere,

id. Tusc. 5, 1, 3.—

Of the mind:

animi,

Caes. B. G. 7, 77, 9:

ingenii,

Plin. Ep. 4, 18, 1:

consilii,

Cic. Off. 1, 32, 117:

magistratuum,

id. Fam. 1, 4, 3:

fallit plerumque, quod probitas vocatur, quae est imbecillitas,

Quint. 6, 4, 12:

neque illos imbecillitatis damnandos,

Tac. A. 4, 8.

languor, ōris, m. [langueo], faintness, feebleness, weariness, sluggishness, languor, lassitude.

Lit.

In gen. (class.; cf.: torpor, torpedo, veturnus): ubi saepe ad languorem tua duritia dederis octo validos lictores. Plaut. As. 3, 2, 28:

haec deambulatio me ad languorem dedit,

has fatigued me, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3:

(animus) cum languore corporis nec membris uti nec sensibus potest,

on account of lassitude of the body, Cic. Div. 2, 62, 128:

languore militum et vigiliis periculum augetur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 31.— In plur., Cat. 55, 31.— Transf., of things, of the faintness, paleness of colors, Plin. 37, 9, 46, § 130.— Poet., of the sea, stillness, calmness:

et maria pigro fixa languore impulit,

Sen. Agm. 161.—

In partic., faintness, weakness, languor proceeding from disease ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

aquosus,

dropsy, Hor. C. 2, 2, 15:

languor faucium,

Suet. Ner. 41:

in languorem incidit,

id. Tib. 72:

ipsum languorem peperit cibus imperfectus,

Juv. 3, 233:

vere languores nostros ipse tulit,

Vulg. Isa. 53, 4:

a languoribus sanari,

id. Luc. 6, 18.—

Trop., faintness, dulness, sluggishness, apathy, inactivity, listlessness (class.):

languori se desidiaeque dedere,

Cic. Off. 1, 34, 123:

languorem afferre alicui, opp. acuere,

id. ib. 3, 1, 1; id. Phil. 7, 1, 1:

bonorum,

id. Att. 14, 6, 2:

in languorem vertere,

Tac. H. 2, 42:

amantem languor Arguit,

Hor. Epod. 11, 9; cf. Val. Fl. 7, 194.

mollĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [id.], suppleness, flexibility, softness (class.).

Lit.:

mollitudo vocis,

flexibility of the voice, Auct. Her. 3, 11, 20: manuum, Pac. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 13:

assimilis spongiis mollitudo,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136:

viarum,

Vitr. 10, 6 init.; 10, 2, 11.—

Trop., softness, susceptibility, weakness:

humanitatis,

Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 161:

corrumpi mollitudine vitiorum,

Arn. 2, 64.