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bŏnĭtas , ātis, f. bonus,
I.the good quality of a thing, goodness, excellence (cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 28 Herz.; class., but mostly in prose).
I. Of concrete objects: “bonitas praediorum,Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 20: “agrorum,id. Agr. 2, 16, 41; Caes. B. G. 1, 28: “agri aut oppidi,Cic. Agr. 2, 28, 76: “praediorum,id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20; Dig. 50, 16, 86: “terrae,Lucr. 5, 1247: “soli,Quint. 2, 19, 2: “aquae,Phaedr. 4, 9, 8: “vini,Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 55: “arboris,id. 13, 9, 17, § 61: “gemmarum,id. 37, 8, 37, § 116 al.: “vocis,Cic. Or. 18, 59: “verborum,id. ib. 49, 164: “mutuum eādem bonitate solvatur quā datum est,Dig. 12, 1, 3: “secunda bonitas (amomi),the second quality, Plin. 12, 13, 28, § 48; Dig. 45, 1, 75, § 2.—
II. Of abstract objects: “ingenii,Cic. Off. 3, 3, 14: “causae,id. Dom. 22, 57: “naturae,id. Off. 1, 32, 118: “sapientiae,Quint. 5, 10, 75. —
2. Kindness, friendliness, benevolence, benignity, affability: perpetua naturalis bonitas (kind-heartedness, benevolence), quae nullis casibus neque agitur, neque minuitur, Nep. Att. 9, 1: “te oro per mei te erga bonitatem patris,Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 54; Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60: “bonitas et beneficentia,id. ib. 1, 43, 121; “3, 34, 84: homo liberalis et dissolutus et bonitate affluens,id. Rosc. Com. 10, 27: “utrumque incredibile est, et Roscium quicquam per avaritiam appetisse, et Fannium quicquam per bonitatem amisisse,id. ib. 7, 21: “multas hereditates nullā aliā re quam bonitate consecutus est,Nep. Att. 21, 1: “bonitas, humanitas, misericordia,Quint. 5, 1, 22; Tac. H. 1, 52. —
3. Esp., parental love, tenderness: “quid dicam... de bonitate in suos,Cic. Lael. 3, 11: “facit parentes bonitas, non necessitas,Phaedr. 3, 15, 18.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (26):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 13.4.3
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.28
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 7.20
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.16.41
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.28.76
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 3.3.13
    • Cicero, For Quintus Roscius the Actor, 10.27
    • Cicero, On his House, 22.57
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.52
    • Plautus, Captivi, 2.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1247
    • Cornelius Nepos, Atticus, 21.1
    • Cornelius Nepos, Atticus, 9.1
    • Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, 8.3
    • Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon, 5.1
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 12.48
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.20
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.23
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 3.30
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 3
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.32
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 3.3
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 19.2
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 10.75
    • Ovid, Tristia, 4.5
    • Cicero, Orator, 18.59
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