aequalitas

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

aequālĭtas, ātis, f. [aequalis], equality, similarity, uniformity (syn.: similitudo, planities, aequitas).

I In gen.: similitudo aequalitasque verborum, Cic. Part. Or. 6: fraterna, id. Lig. 12; Vulg. 2 Cor. 8, 13, 14.—

II In Tac. freq. of political equality , = ἰσοτιμία: omnes exutā aequalitate jussa principis aspectare, Tac. A. 1, 4; 3, 74; cf. id. ib. 26, and id. H. 2, 38.—

III Of equality in age (cf. aequalis, II.): et aequalitas vestra et pares honorum gradus, Cic. Brut. 42.—

IV The equality , evenness of a place : maris, i. e. mare tranquillum, a calm , γαλήνη, Sen. Ep. 53: (Oesypum) carnes excrescentes ad aequalitatem reducit, Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113.

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