severity
severity
subs.
P. and V. πῑκρότης, ἡ, P. χαλεπότης, ἡ, σκληρότης, ἡ, V. τρᾱχύτης, ἡ.
Terribleness: P. δεινότης, ἡ.
subs.
P. and V. πῑκρότης, ἡ, P. χαλεπότης, ἡ, σκληρότης, ἡ, V. τρᾱχύτης, ἡ.
Terribleness: P. δεινότης, ἡ.
SEVERITY
Harshness rigor severitas (opposed to facilitas; humanitas; indulgentia): rigor: rigor et severitas (opposed to dementia): duritia: asperitas (roughness): acerbitas (with the infliction of injury etc.): saevitia (despotic tyrannical cruelty).
Accuracy extreme care diligentia.
Figuratively (Of the weather etc.) severitas: asperitas: duritia: severity of the winter saevitia hiemis (Tac.); rigor hiemis (Justinus): severity of the cold vis frigorum (Cic.); asperitas rigor frigorum (Tac.): severity of the climate duritia caeli (Tac. Ann. 13 35).
Harshness rigor severitas (opposed to facilitas; humanitas; indulgentia): rigor: rigor et severitas (opposed to dementia): duritia: asperitas (roughness): acerbitas (with the infliction of injury etc.): saevitia (despotic tyrannical cruelty).
Accuracy extreme care diligentia.
Figuratively (Of the weather etc.) severitas: asperitas: duritia: severity of the winter saevitia hiemis (Tac.); rigor hiemis (Justinus): severity of the cold vis frigorum (Cic.); asperitas rigor frigorum (Tac.): severity of the climate duritia caeli (Tac. Ann. 13 35).
severity:
I. Harshness, rigour:
1. sĕvērĭtas (in good or bad sense): s. of the courts, judiciorum s., Cic. Sull. fin. (opp. to lenitas ac misericordia): censorial s. (in good sense), censoria s., id. Pis. 4, fin.: Caes.
2. ăcerbĭtas (extreme and cruel s.): Cic. Sull. l. c. (see the place).
3. dūrĭtia (not in Cic.): s. of laws, d. legum (opp. to lenitas), Suet. Cl. 14: Tac.
4. atrōcĭtas (savage and bloody s.): v.CRUELTY . Phr.: to treat the guilty with s., nocentes insectari, Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 2: cf. Cic. Am. 16, 57, acerbius in aliquem invehi, insectarique vehementius.
5. austērĭtas (rare in this sense): Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 5 (s. in criticism).
II. Austereness:
1. sĕvērĭtas (esp. a proper and laudable strictness): Ter. Andr. 5, 2, 16 (tristis s. in vultu, in good sense). Join: gravitas severitasque, Cic. Mur. 31, fin. (The excess of severitas passes into tristitia and morositas, gloominess and moroseness: cf. Gierig on Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 7.)
2. horror (late in this sense: denotes an excess of austerity): Plin. Ep. ib.
3. expr. by circuml. with adj.: v.SEVERE (II.).
III. Great nicety in taste or judgment: sĕvērĭtas: Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 19 ("severitas aurium alias tribuitur iis qui excellunt in dijudicando numero oratorio et sono verborum, Quint. 9, 4, 116."--Gierig). See alsoNICETY .
IV. As denoting extreme degree of pain, cold, etc.; and generally, grievousness to be borne:
1. grăvĭtas: s. of climate, g. coeli [aquarumque, referring to heavy rains], Liv. 23, 34, med.: s. of a disease, g. morbi, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76.
2. vis, rĭgor: v.INTENSITY .
3. intempĕries, ēi (of climate): Liv. 8, 18, init. (where, however, the phr. denotes not intensity or rigour of cold, but rather unhealthiness in general).
4. inclēmentia: esp. of climate: inc. coeli, Just. 9, 2, med. (late, however, in this sense).
5. expr. by adj.: such is the s. of the climate, adeo acria frigora sunt: v.SEVERE (IV.).
I. Harshness, rigour:
1. sĕvērĭtas (in good or bad sense): s. of the courts, judiciorum s., Cic. Sull. fin. (opp. to lenitas ac misericordia): censorial s. (in good sense), censoria s., id. Pis. 4, fin.: Caes.
2. ăcerbĭtas (extreme and cruel s.): Cic. Sull. l. c. (see the place).
3. dūrĭtia (not in Cic.): s. of laws, d. legum (opp. to lenitas), Suet. Cl. 14: Tac.
4. atrōcĭtas (savage and bloody s.): v.
5. austērĭtas (rare in this sense): Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 5 (s. in criticism).
II. Austereness:
1. sĕvērĭtas (esp. a proper and laudable strictness): Ter. Andr. 5, 2, 16 (tristis s. in vultu, in good sense). Join: gravitas severitasque, Cic. Mur. 31, fin. (The excess of severitas passes into tristitia and morositas, gloominess and moroseness: cf. Gierig on Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 7.)
2. horror (late in this sense: denotes an excess of austerity): Plin. Ep. ib.
3. expr. by circuml. with adj.: v.
III. Great nicety in taste or judgment: sĕvērĭtas: Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 19 ("severitas aurium alias tribuitur iis qui excellunt in dijudicando numero oratorio et sono verborum, Quint. 9, 4, 116."--Gierig). See also
IV. As denoting extreme degree of pain, cold, etc.; and generally, grievousness to be borne:
1. grăvĭtas: s. of climate, g. coeli [aquarumque, referring to heavy rains], Liv. 23, 34, med.: s. of a disease, g. morbi, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76.
2. vis, rĭgor: v.
3. intempĕries, ēi (of climate): Liv. 8, 18, init. (where, however, the phr. denotes not intensity or rigour of cold, but rather unhealthiness in general).
4. inclēmentia: esp. of climate: inc. coeli, Just. 9, 2, med. (late, however, in this sense).
5. expr. by adj.: such is the s. of the climate, adeo acria frigora sunt: v.