- humilitas
- hŭmĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [humilis], lowness (acc. to humilis, I.).I.Lit.:II.
naves omnes actuarias imperat fieri, quam ad rem humilitas multum adjuvat (shortly before: naves paulo facit humiliores),
Caes. B. G. 5, 1, 3:arborum,
Sall. J. 49, 5:aliorum animalium ea est humilitas, ut cibum terrestrem rostris facile contingant,
low stature, Cic. N. D. 2 47, 122:sidera multum inter se aut altitudine aut humilitate distantia,
id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:quanta humilitate luna feratur, terram paene contingens,
id. Div. 2, 43, 91.—Trop.A.Of rank, birth, or influence, lowness, meanness, insignificance: malorum turba quaedam, paupertas, ignobilitas, humilitas, solitudo, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 29:B.propter humilitatem et obscuritatem,
id. Off. 2, 13, 45:humilitatem cum dignitate contendere,
id. Rosc. Am. 47, 136:alicujus despicere,
id. Phil. 13, 10, 23:obicere humilitatem alicui,
Liv. 26, 31, 4:ex humilitate sua,
Caes. B. G. 5, 25:infima natalium,
Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 37:generis,
Sall. J. 73, 4:generis ac nominis,
Suet. Vesp. 4:obliterata quoque scrutabimur, nec deterrebit quarundam rerum humilitas,
Plin. 14, 1, 1, § 7.—Littleness of mind, meanness, baseness, abjectness:2.habet levitatem laetitia gestiens, humilitatem metus,
Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27; id. de Or. 1, 53, 228:et dejecto (capite) humilitas et supino arrogantia ostenditur,
Quint. 11, 3, 69; so,opp. arrogantia,
Caes. B. C. 1, 85, 5:saepe virtus et magnificentia plus proficit ad misericordiam commovendam quam humilitas et obsecratio,
Cic. Inv. 1, 56, 109:summittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium,
Liv. 38, 52, 2:asinorum,
Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 180.—In eccl. Lat., in a good sense, opp. to pride, lowness, humility, Lact. 5, 15; Sulp. Sever. Vit. S. Mart. 2 fin. et saep.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.