rusticitas

rustĭcĭtas, ātis, f. [rusticus] (not anteAug.).

I.

Lit.

A.

Country life and occupations, i. e. tillage, husbandry, Pall. Insit. 11.—

B.

Concr., country people, Pall. 1, 31; Cod. Just. 1, 55, 3.—

II.

Transf., the manners of the country or of country people, rustic behavior, rusticity (opp. urbanitas);

in a good and (more freq.) in a bad sense: patria est ei Brixia, ex illā nostrā Italiā, quae multum adhuc verecundiae, frugalitatis atque etiam rusticitatis antiquae retinet ac servat,

Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 4; cf. Plin. 35, 4, 9, § 26; Calp. Ecl. 4, 4.—In a bad sense:

cultus adest, nec nostros mansit in annos Rusticitas priscis illa superstes avis,

Ov. A. A. 3, 128:

rusticitas, non pudor ille fuit,

id. ib. 1, 672:

vultus sine rusticitate pudentes,

id. H. 20, 59:

(urbanitas) cui contraria sit rusticitas,

Quint. 6, 3, 17; cf.:

et imperitia, et rusticitas, et rigor,

id. 6, 1, 37:

in quo (ore) nulla neque rusticitas neque peregrinitas resonet,

id. 11, 3, 30:

verborum atque ipsius etiam soni,

id. 11, 3, 10:

aliquem rusticitatis arguere,

Suet. Caes. 53:

ignorare propter rusticitatem jus suum,

Dig. 49, 14, 2 fin.