assiduitas

assĭdŭĭtas ( ads- ), ātis, f. [2. assiduus], a constant presence with any one ( in order to serve, aid, etc.; cf. assideo, I. B. 1.; most freq. in Cic.).

I.

In gen.:

medici adsiduitas,

constant attendance, Cic. Att. 12, 33:

cotidiana amicorum adsiduitas et frequentia,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 1, 3:

eorum, qui abs te defensi sunt,

id. ib. 1, 13:

eandemque adsiduitatem tibi se praebuisse postridie,

the same unceasing attendance, Cic. Deiot. 15, 42:

summā adsiduitate cotidianā aliquem tractare,

id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 3, 8.—So of the constant attendance, in the assemblies, of candidates for office (cf.:

habitare in oculis,

Cic. Planc. 27, 66 ):

altera pars petitionis, quae in populari ratione versatur, desiderat nomenclationem, blanditiam, adsiduitatem, etc.,

Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 11, § 43:

adsiduitatis et operarum harum cotidianarum putat esse consulatum,

Cic. Mur. 9, 21:

valuit adsiduitate, valuit observandis amicis, valuit liberalitate,

id. Planc. 27 fin.:

homo aut frugalitatis existimatione praeclara aut, id quod levissimum est, adsiduitate,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 39. —First in Suet., without access. idea, for constant presence, Suet. Tib. 10.—

II.

Esp., with gen. of thing, with the idea of continuance in time, the continuance, duration, constancy of any thing; sometimes a frequent occurrence or repetition of it:

adsiduitate molestiarum sensum omnem humanitatis ex animis amittimus,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 53 fin.:

adsiduitate cotidianā et consuetudine oculorum adsuescunt animi,

id. N. D. 2, 38, 96:

bellorum,

id. Off. 2, 21, 74:

epistularum,

unbroken correspondence, id. Fam. 16, 25:

orationis,

id. Att. 16, 5, 2:

dicendi adsiduitas aluit audaciam,

id. Inv. 1, 3, 4:

contubernii,

Tac. Or. 5:

spectaculorum,

Suet. Aug. 43:

concubitus,

id. Dom. 22:

opprobrii,

Vulg. Eccli. 41, 9: ejusdem litterae, Auct. ad Her. 4, 12, 18.—Without gen. of thing:

talis in rem publicam nostram labor, adsiduitas, dimicatio,

assiduity, unremitting application, Cic. Balb. 2, 6:

adsiduitas illius non est,

Vulg. Eccli. 7, 14:

viri mendacis,

ib. ib. 20, 27; 38, 28.