I.pleas antness, delightfulness, loveliness.
I. Lit., of places (as scenery, a garden, river, etc.; in the poets, except Plaut., rare; “never in Ter., Lucr., or Hor.): nunc domus suppeditat mihi hortorum amoenitatem,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4: “fluminis,” id. ib. 3, 1, 1: “amoenitates orarum et litorum,” id. N. D. 2, 39; so id. Leg. 2, 1; id. Rep. 2, 4; Nep. Att. 13; Col. 1, 4, 8; Flor. 2, 11, 4 al.—
II. Metaph.
A. Of other things (so in Plaut. and the prose-writers of the post-Aug. per., but not in Cic.): “amoenitates omnium venerum atque venustatum,” Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 5: “hic me amoenitate amoenā amoenus oneravit dies,” id. Capt. 4, 1, 7: “amoenitates studiorum, Plin. praef.: vitae,” Tac. A. 5, 2: “verborum,” Gell. 12, 1 fin.: “orationis,” id. 10, 3 al. —
