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lēvĭtas | laev- (noun F) : (), , 2. lēvis
* Smoothness.
* Lit. (class.): speculorum,Cic. Univ. 14; id. de Or. 3, 25, 99; id. Univ. 6; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7: intestinorum,slipperiness, lubricity,Cels. 4, 16; 2, 8.
* Trop., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility: Demosthenes nihil levitate Aeschini et splendore verborum cedit,Cic. Or. 31, 110: verborum,Quint. 10, 1, 52: effeminata,id. 8, 3, 6.
* Smoothness.
* Lit. (class.): speculorum,Cic. Univ. 14; id. de Or. 3, 25, 99; id. Univ. 6; Plin. 2, 3, 3, § 7: intestinorum,slipperiness, lubricity,Cels. 4, 16; 2, 8.
* Trop., of speech, smoothness, fluency, facility: Demosthenes nihil levitate Aeschini et splendore verborum cedit,Cic. Or. 31, 110: verborum,Quint. 10, 1, 52: effeminata,id. 8, 3, 6.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
Lewis Short
lĕvĭtas (noun F) : 1. levis
* Lightness, as to weight.
* Lit. (rare): plumarum,Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745: armorum,Caes. B. G. 5, 34: nulli fruticum levitas major,Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—*
* Transf., poet., movableness, mobility: Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane,Ov. F. 2, 673.
* Trop.
* Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.): quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius?Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9: temere assentientium,id. Ac. 2, 38, 120: in populari ratione,id. Brut. 27, 103: mobilitas et levitas animi,Caes. B. G. 2, 1: ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est,lightness of mind,Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: amatoriis levitatibus dediti,frivolities,id. Fin. 1, 18, 62: manet in rebus temere congestis levitas,Quint. 10, 3, 17: contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam,Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.
* In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare): opinionis,Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.
* Lightness, as to weight.
* Lit. (rare): plumarum,Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745: armorum,Caes. B. G. 5, 34: nulli fruticum levitas major,Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—*
* Transf., poet., movableness, mobility: Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane,Ov. F. 2, 673.
* Trop.
* Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.): quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius?Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9: temere assentientium,id. Ac. 2, 38, 120: in populari ratione,id. Brut. 27, 103: mobilitas et levitas animi,Caes. B. G. 2, 1: ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est,lightness of mind,Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: amatoriis levitatibus dediti,frivolities,id. Fin. 1, 18, 62: manet in rebus temere congestis levitas,Quint. 10, 3, 17: contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam,Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.
* In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare): opinionis,Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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