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lentitudo

lentitudo, sluggishness, dulness, apathy, insensibility

lentĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [lentĭtĭes], slowness, sluggishness, inactivity.
  • I Lit.: conjuratorum, Tac. A. 15, 51; Vell. 2, 11, 2.—
  • II Trop.: dulness, apathy, insensibility, Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 43: omnino non irasci est non solum gravitatis, sed nonnumquam etiam lentitudinis, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 13, § 38.—Of speech: libros ejusdem lentitudinis ac teporis, dulness, heaviness, Tac. Or. 21, 6.

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