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făcĭlĭtas (noun F) : facilis
* Easiness, ease, facility in doing any thing.
* In gen. (mostly post-Aug.): haec in bonis rebus, quod alii ad alia bona sunt aptiores, facilitas nominetur, in malis proclivitas,inclination, disposition,Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28; cf.: aetatis illius (i. e. puerilis) facilitas,capability,Quint. 1, 12, 11: audendi facilitas,id. 12, 6, 7: pariendi,Plin. 21, 24, 95, § 167: oris,i. e. easy enunciation,Quint. 10, 7, 26: corporis,a tendency to blush,Sen. Ep. 11: soli,facility in working,Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 178: picea tonsili facilitate,id. 16, 10, 18, § 40: (smaragdi) ad crassitudinem sui facilitate translucida,i. e. facility in transmitting the rays of light,id. 37, 5, 16, § 63.
* In partic.
* Of speech, facility or fluency of expression (post-Aug.): Fabianus disputabat expedite magis quam concitate, ut possis dicere, facilitatem esse illam, non celeritatem,Sen. Ep. 40: quae in oratore maxima sunt, ingenium, inventio, vis, facilitas,Quint. 10, 2, 12; 10, 5, 1; 10, 7, 20; 11, 1, 42; Suet. Gramm. 23 al.; cf. Quint. 10, cap. 7.
* (Acc. to facilis, II. A.) Of character.
* In a good sense, willingness, readiness, good-nature, courteousness, affability (freq. in Cic.; syn.: lenitas, humanitas): male docet te mea facilitas multa,Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 35: si illius comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,Cic. Mur. 31, 66; cf. id. Lael. 18, 66: pro tua facilitate et humanitate,id. Fam. 13, 24, 2: facilitas in audiendo,id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 21; cf.: facilitas et lenitudo animi,id. Off. 1, 25, 88 Orell. N. cr.: facilitas indulgentiaque,Suet. Caes. 72: facilitate par infimis esse,Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41: sermonis,id. Att. 12, 40, 2: magis id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit,id. de Or. 2, 4, 15: actio facilitatem significans,id. ib. 2, 43, 184.
* In a bad sense, levity, heedlessness, Suet. Claud. 29; cf.: fornicationis,Vulg. Jerem. 3, 9.
* Easiness, ease, facility in doing any thing.
* In gen. (mostly post-Aug.): haec in bonis rebus, quod alii ad alia bona sunt aptiores, facilitas nominetur, in malis proclivitas,inclination, disposition,Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28; cf.: aetatis illius (i. e. puerilis) facilitas,capability,Quint. 1, 12, 11: audendi facilitas,id. 12, 6, 7: pariendi,Plin. 21, 24, 95, § 167: oris,i. e. easy enunciation,Quint. 10, 7, 26: corporis,a tendency to blush,Sen. Ep. 11: soli,facility in working,Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 178: picea tonsili facilitate,id. 16, 10, 18, § 40: (smaragdi) ad crassitudinem sui facilitate translucida,i. e. facility in transmitting the rays of light,id. 37, 5, 16, § 63.
* In partic.
* Of speech, facility or fluency of expression (post-Aug.): Fabianus disputabat expedite magis quam concitate, ut possis dicere, facilitatem esse illam, non celeritatem,Sen. Ep. 40: quae in oratore maxima sunt, ingenium, inventio, vis, facilitas,Quint. 10, 2, 12; 10, 5, 1; 10, 7, 20; 11, 1, 42; Suet. Gramm. 23 al.; cf. Quint. 10, cap. 7.
* (Acc. to facilis, II. A.) Of character.
* In a good sense, willingness, readiness, good-nature, courteousness, affability (freq. in Cic.; syn.: lenitas, humanitas): male docet te mea facilitas multa,Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 35: si illius comitatem et facilitatem tuae gravitati severitatique asperseris,Cic. Mur. 31, 66; cf. id. Lael. 18, 66: pro tua facilitate et humanitate,id. Fam. 13, 24, 2: facilitas in audiendo,id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7, § 21; cf.: facilitas et lenitudo animi,id. Off. 1, 25, 88 Orell. N. cr.: facilitas indulgentiaque,Suet. Caes. 72: facilitate par infimis esse,Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 14, 41: sermonis,id. Att. 12, 40, 2: magis id facilitate quam alia ulla culpa mea contigit,id. de Or. 2, 4, 15: actio facilitatem significans,id. ib. 2, 43, 184.
* In a bad sense, levity, heedlessness, Suet. Claud. 29; cf.: fornicationis,Vulg. Jerem. 3, 9.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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