I.silliness, folly, absurdity (in sing. ante- and post-class.): “tua,” Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 31; Plaut. Merc. prol. 26. —
II. Plur.: ĭneptĭae , ārum, sillinesses, fooleries, trifles, absurdities (class.): “omnium ineptiarum haud scio an ulla sit major, quam, etc.,” Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 18; id. ib. 124, 111; id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47: “paene aniles,” id. Tusc. 1, 39, 93: “sententiarum,” Suet. Aug. 86: hujusmodi ineptiis se immiscere, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 2, 3.