I.bad quality, badness.
II. Trop., ill-will, spite, malice (class.): virtutis contraria est vitiositas: sic enim malo, quam malitiam, appellare eam, quam Graeci κακίαν appellant: “nam malitia certi cujusdam vitii nomen est: vitiositas omnium,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34: “est enim malitia versuta et fallax nocendi ratio,” id. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Rosc. Com. 16, 46: “per summam fraudem et malitiam,” id. Quint. 18, 56; id. Clu. 26, 70; “opp. to virtus: virtute, non malitia, P. Scipioni placuisse,” Sall. J. 22, 2.—With malus: “sine mala omni malitia,” Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 38.—In plur.: “collatio nostrarum malitiarum,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 66: “everriculum malitiarum omnium,” Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74.—
C. Sometimes in a good sense, like our roguery, Cic. Att. 15, 26, 4: “tamen a malitia non discedis,” you do not desist from your roguery, id. Fam. 9, 19, 1.
