amoenitas

ămoenĭtas, ātis, f. [amoenus], pleas antness, delightfulness, loveliness.

I.

Lit., of places (as scenery, a garden, river, etc.; in the poets, except Plaut., rare;

never in Ter., Lucr., or Hor.): nunc domus suppeditat mihi hortorum amoenitatem,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4:

fluminis,

id. ib. 3, 1, 1:

amoenitates orarum et litorum,

id. N. D. 2, 39; so id. Leg. 2, 1; id. Rep. 2, 4; Nep. Att. 13; Col. 1, 4, 8; Flor. 2, 11, 4 al.—

II.

Metaph.

A.

Of other things (so in Plaut. and the prose-writers of the post-Aug. per., but not in Cic.):

amoenitates omnium venerum atque venustatum,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 5:

hic me amoenitate amoenā amoenus oneravit dies,

id. Capt. 4, 1, 7:

amoenitates studiorum, Plin. praef.: vitae,

Tac. A. 5, 2:

verborum,

Gell. 12, 1 fin.:

orationis,

id. 10, 3 al. —

B.

As a term of endearment:

uxor mea, mea amoenitas, quid tu agis?

my delight, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 13:

mea vita, mea amoenitas, meus ocellus,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 152.