I.desirable condition, good fortune, success, prosperity (rare but good prose): “vitae,” Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 86: honestarum rerum, id. Fragm. ap. Amm. 21, 16, 13: “tantā prosperitate usus est valetudinis, ut, etc.,” such a desirable state of health, such full health, Nep. Att. 21, 1.—In plur.: “improborum prosperitates secundaeque res,” Cic. N. D. 3, 36, 88: “ventorum,” App. M. 11, p. 270, 21: “summarum rerum,” Amm. 17, 4, 6: “currentes ex voto,” id. 22, 8, 6; Vulg. 2 Macc. 14, 14.—
II. Joy, approbation: “quod est prosperitatis indicium plenum,” Amm. 15, 8, 15.