infirmĭtas (noun F) : infirmus
* Want of strength; weakness, feebleness.
* Lit.: puerorum,Cic. de Sen. 10, 33: summa gracilitas et infirmitas corporis,id. Fam. 7, 1: oculorum, Plin. Ep. 7, 21: propter sexus infirmitatem,Ulp. Fragm. 11, 1: aetatis,Paul. Sent. 1, 7, 2.
* In partic. (sc. corporis, valetudinis), infirmity, indisposition, sickness: suspicionem infirmitatis dare,Suet. Tib. 72: infirmitate correptus,Just. 28, 3; Plin. Ep. 10, 6, 1: infirmitate impeditus,Dig. 4, 6, 38.
* Trop.
* Of things: hordeo contra tempestates maxima infirmitas,Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 78: aedificii,Dig. 39, 2, 43: nimia vini,Col. 12; 20, 7.
* Concr., of the weaker sex, women, Liv. 34, 7 fin.: infirmitas a robustioribus separanda est,children,Quint. 2, 2, 14.
* In gen.: animi,want of spirit, want of courage,Cic. Rosc. Am. 4, 10: mentis,Sen. Ep. 11: memoriae,weakness,Dig. 41, 2, 44: necesse est aut infirmitati aut invidiae adsignetur, Caec. in Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3.
* In partic., fickleness, inconstancy: infirmitatem Gallorum veritus, quod sunt in consiliis capiendis mobiles,Caes. B. G. 4, 5.

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