I.the power of discerning or understanding, discernment, understanding, intelligence.
I. Lit.: “Deus intellegentiam in animo inclusit,” Cic. Univ. 3: “intellegentia est, per quam animus ea perspicit, quae sunt,” id. Inv. 2, 53: “pars animi, rationis atque intellegentiae particeps,” id. de Div. 1, 32, 70: “infixam nostram intellegentiam capere, etc.,” id. N. D. 1, 19, 49 fin.: “fretus intellegentia vestra dissero brevius,” id. ib. 1, 19, 49: “quod in nostram intellegentiam cadit,” id. Off. 3, 4; 2, 9 fin.: “ratione et intellegentia tenere aliquid,” id. ib. 3, 17 al.—
II. Transf.
A. Understanding, knowledge: “quia difficilis erat animi, quid, aut qualis esset, intellegentia, nullum omnino animum esse dixerunt,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 22: “quae nos magis ad cognitionem intellegentiamque convertant,” id. ib. 5, 24: “juris,” id. Phil. 9, 5: somniorum, the knowledge of dreams, i. e. the art of interpreting dreams, Just. 36, 2: “eam calamitatem vestra intellegentia sedabit,” discrimination, Ter. Hec. prol. 23. —
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Plur.: “rerum omnium quasi adumbratas intellegentias animo ac mente concipere,” Cic. Leg. 1, 22.—
B. In partic.
1. Art, skill, taste, connoisseurship: intellegentia in rusticis rebus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 17: “in homine intellegentiam esse, non avaritiam,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 21, § 46: “pecuniae quaerendae,” id. Inv. 1, 29.—
2. Perception, discernment by the senses: “in gustu et odoratu intellegentia,” Cic. Ac. 4, 7.