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dēbĭlĭtas , ātis, f. debilis,
I.lameness, debility, infirmity, weakness (good prose).
I. Lit.: “linguae,” Cic. Pis. 1: “membrorum,” Liv. 33, 2: pedis, Labeo ap. Gell. 4, 2, 4: “pedum,” Tac. H. 1, 9: aliqua corporis, * Suet. Calig. 26 fin. et saep.—Absol.: “bonum integritas corporis, miserum debilitas,” Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84; so id. Tusc. 3, 34; id. de Inv. 1, 25, 36; Liv. 2, 36; Cels. 5, 26, 28; Juv. 14, 156; Quint. 5, 12, 19; Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 9 al.— In plur.: “a se dolores, morbos, debilitates repellere,” Cic. Fin. 4, 8 fin.; Gell. 7, 1, 7; Arnob. 1, 46 sq.—
II. Trop.: “animi,” Cic. Fin. 1, 15: “mollis debilitate Galliambus,” Mart. 2, 86, 5.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 1
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.9
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 26
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 8.18.9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 33, 2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 36
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 1.15
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 4.8
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.28
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.34
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 12.19
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 4.2.4
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 7.1.7
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 5.26
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