lentitudo

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

lentĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [lentĭtĭes], slowness, sluggishness, inactivity.

I Lit.: conjuratorum, Tac. A. 15, 51; Vell. 2, 11, 2.—

II Trop.: dulness, apathy, insensibility , Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 43: omnino non irasci est non solum gravitatis, sed nonnumquam etiam lentitudinis, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 38.—Of speech: libros ejusdem lentitudinis ac teporis, dulness, heaviness , Tac. Or. 21, 6.

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