LAT

Lewis Short

vălētūdo | vălītūdo (noun F) : (), , valeo
* Habit, state, or condition of body, state of health, health, whether good or bad.
* Lit.
* In gen.: optimā valetudine uti,Caes. B. C. 3, 49: valetudine minus commodā uti,id. ib. 3, 62: integra,Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 47: bona,Lucr. 3, 102; Cic. Lael. 6, 20; Quint. 10, 3, 26; Cato, R. R. 141, 3: melior,Plin. 23, 7, 63, § 120: commodior,Quint. 6, 3, 77: incommoda,Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1: infirma atque etiam aegra,id. Brut. 48, 180: quam tenui aut nullā potius valetudine,id. Sen. 11, 35: adversa,Just. 41, 6: dura,Hor. S. 2, 2, 88: confirmata,Cic. Att. 10, 17, 2; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46; id. de Or. 1, 62, 265: ut valetudini tuae diligentissime servias,id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, § 46: multum interest inter vires et bonam valetudinem,Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. 6.—Plur.: sic caecitas ferri facile possit, si non desint subsidia valetudinum, of different states of health, i. e. whatever they may be, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 113.
* Trop. (rare but class.), of the mind, health, soundness, sanity: ii sunt constituti quasi malā valetudine animi, sanabiles tamen,Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80: roga bonam mentem, bonam valetudinem animi, deinde tunc corporis,Sen. Ep. 10, 4; cf.: valetudo ei neque corporis neque animi constitit,unsound state of mind, mental infirmity,Suet. Calig. 50.—Rarely without animi: qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur,Cic. Div. 1, 38, 81.
* A good state or condition, soundness of body, good health, healthfulness (syn.: salus, sanitas): valetudo decrescit, adcrescit labor,Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 4: valetudo (opportuna est), ut dolore careas et muneribus fungare corporis,Cic. Lael. 6, 22: cui Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde,Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 10: valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis et observatione, quae res aut prodesse soleant aut obesse,Cic. Off. 2, 24, 86: melior fio valetudine, quam intermissis exercitationibus amiseram,id. Fam. 9, 18, 3: id pecus valetudinis tutissimae est,Col. 7, 22: hoc cibo ... firmitatem valetudinis custodiri,Plin. 20, 5, 20, § 42; cf.: Quaque valetudo constat, nunc libera morbis, Nunc oppressa,Manil. 3, 140; cf. also Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265.
* Personified: Valetudo, Health, as a divinity, Mart. Cap. 1, § 55.
* Of style: quos (Lysiae studiosi), valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,Cic. Brut. 16, 64.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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