alacritas

ălăcrĭtas, ātis, f. [alacer], the condition or quality of alacer, liveliness, ardor, briskness, alacrity, eagerness, promptness, joy, gladness:

alacritas rei publicae defendendae,

Cic. Phil. 4, 1:

mirā sum alacritate ad litigandum,

Cic. Att. 2, 7; so id. ib. 16, 3:

alacritas studiumque pugnandi,

Caes. B. G. 1, 46:

animi incitatio atque alacritas,

id. B. C. 3, 92:

alacritas animae suae,

Vulg. Eccli. 45, 29:

finem orationis ingens alacritas consecuta est,

Tac. Agr. 35:

(naves) citae remis augebantur alacritate militum in speciem ac terrorem,

id. A. 2, 6.—Of animals:

canum in venando,

Cic. N. D. 2, 63. —Of a joyous state of mind as made known by external demeanor, transport, rapture, ecstasy:

inanis alacritas, id est laetitia gestiens,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 36:

vir temperatus, constans, sine metu, sine aegritudine, sine alacritate ullā, sine libidine,

id. ib. 5, 16, 48. —With obj. gen., joy on account of something:

clamor Romanorum alacritate perfecti operis sublatus,

Liv. 2, 10 med. —

* In plur.

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vigores quidam mentium et alacritates,

Gell. 19, 12, 4.