patientia

pătĭentĭa, ae, f. [patior], the quality of bearing, suffering, or enduring, patience, endurance.

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen.:

pati entia est honestatis aut utilitatis causā rerum arduarum ac difficilium voluntaria ac diuturna perpessio,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 163:

patientia famis et frigoris,

id. Cat. 1, 10, 26:

hominum ea patientia, virtus frugalitasque est,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 7:

paupertatis,

id. Agr. 2, 24, 64:

audiendi,

Quint. 11, 2, 8; 12, 9, 9.—

B.

In partic., submission to unnatural lust, pathicism, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 13, § 34; Sen. Q. N. 1, 16, 5; id. Vit. Beat. 13, 3; Tac. A. 6, 1; Petr. 9 and 25; Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 5, 3, 2.—

II.

Transf.

A.

Forbearance, indulgence, lenity:

constantiam dico? nescio an melius patientiam possem dicere,

Cic. Lig. 9, 26:

quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientiā nostrā?

id. Cat. 1, 1, 1; id. Pis. 2, 5:

quem duplici panno patientia velat,

Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 25:

levius fit patientiā Quicquid corrigere est nefas,

id. C. 1, 24, 19.—

B.

In a bad sense, indolence, want of spirit: ne quis in me aut nimiam patientiam, aut nimium stuporem arguat, Porc. Latro ap. Sen. Contr. 2, 15; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 5:

in patientiā firmitudinem simulans,

Tac. A. 6, 46.—

C.

Submissiveness, subjection:

usque ad servilem patientiam demissus,

Tac. A. 14, 26:

Britanniam uno praelio veteri patientiae restituit,

id. Agr. 16; id. H. 2, 29.