ĭnertĭa (noun F) : id.
* Want of art or skill, unskilfulness, ignorance.
* Lit. (rare but class.): animi (spectantur), quemadmodum affecti sint, virtutibus, vitiis; artibus, inertiis,Cic. Part. 10, 35; Petr. 135, 6.
* Transf., in gen., inactivity, idleness, laziness (very freq.): inertia atque torpedo, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 2, 6: id largiamur inertiae nostrae,Cic. de Or. 1, 15, 68: castigare segnitiem hominum atque inertiam,id. ib. 1, 41, 185: laboris,aversion to labor,id. Rosc. Com. 8, 24: operis,Liv. 33, 45, 7 al.— In an oxymoron: strenua,Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 28; cf. inquieta,Sen. Tranq. 12, 2.

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