I. Assiduity, application, zeal, earnestness, sedulousness, sedulity (class.; syn. diligentia): Balbi quoque Cornelii operam et sedulitatem laudare possum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 2; cf.: “pro sedulitate ac diligentiā,” Suet. Galb. 12 fin.; “of ants: qui labor, quae sedulitas,” Plin. 11, 30, 36, § 109; Cic. Caecin. 5, 14; id. Arch. 10, 25: “ne mea sedulitas aut insidiosa aut inpudens videretur,” id. Agr. 2, 5, 12 al.; Col. 6, 27, 1; Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 6: “multae sedulitatis anus,” Ov. F. 3, 668: “non sentitur sedulitate labor,” id. ib. 4, 434; id. P. 3, 8, 18: “officiosa sedulitas et opella forensis,” Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 8 et al.—*
sēdŭlĭtas , ātis, f. sedulus.