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amoenitas
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Lewis Short
ămoenĭtas (noun F) : amoenus
* Pleas antness, delightfulness, loveliness.
* Lit., of places (as scenery, a garden, river, etc.; in the poets, except Plaut., rare; never in Ter., Lucr., or Hor.): nunc domus suppeditat mihi hortorum amoenitatem,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4: fluminis,id. ib. 3, 1, 1: amoenitates orarum et litorum,id. N. D. 2, 39; so id. Leg. 2, 1; id. Rep. 2, 4; Nep. Att. 13; Col. 1, 4, 8; Flor. 2, 11, 4 al.
* Metaph.
* Of other things (so in Plaut. and the prose-writers of the post-Aug. per., but not in Cic.): amoenitates omnium venerum atque venustatum,Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 5: hic me amoenitate amoenā amoenus oneravit dies,id. Capt. 4, 1, 7: amoenitates studiorum, Plin. praef.: vitae,Tac. A. 5, 2: verborum,Gell. 12, 1 fin.: orationis,id. 10, 3 al.
* As a term of endearment: uxor mea, mea amoenitas, quid tu agis?my delight,Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 13: mea vita, mea amoenitas, meus ocellus,id. Poen. 1, 2, 152.
* Pleas antness, delightfulness, loveliness.
* Lit., of places (as scenery, a garden, river, etc.; in the poets, except Plaut., rare; never in Ter., Lucr., or Hor.): nunc domus suppeditat mihi hortorum amoenitatem,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4: fluminis,id. ib. 3, 1, 1: amoenitates orarum et litorum,id. N. D. 2, 39; so id. Leg. 2, 1; id. Rep. 2, 4; Nep. Att. 13; Col. 1, 4, 8; Flor. 2, 11, 4 al.
* Metaph.
* Of other things (so in Plaut. and the prose-writers of the post-Aug. per., but not in Cic.): amoenitates omnium venerum atque venustatum,Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 5: hic me amoenitate amoenā amoenus oneravit dies,id. Capt. 4, 1, 7: amoenitates studiorum, Plin. praef.: vitae,Tac. A. 5, 2: verborum,Gell. 12, 1 fin.: orationis,id. 10, 3 al.
* As a term of endearment: uxor mea, mea amoenitas, quid tu agis?my delight,Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 13: mea vita, mea amoenitas, meus ocellus,id. Poen. 1, 2, 152.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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