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dīlĭgentĭa , ae, f. diligens,
I.carefulness, attentiveness, earnestness, diligence (freq. and class.; cf.: labor, aerumna, opera, industria, assiduitas, sedulitas, studium, cura).
I. In gen.: reliqua sunt in cura, attentione animi, cogitatione, vigilantia, assiduitate, labore; “complectar uno verbo, quo saepe jam usi sumus, diligentia, qua una virtute omnes virtutes reliquae continentur,Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 150 (v. the whole chapter in connection).
(α). With praepp.: “pro mea summa in re publica diligentia,Cic. Mur. 40, 86: “in controversia,id. Att. 2, 15, 4: “in verbis,Quint. 4, 2, 117: “diligentia tua in retractandis operibus,Plin. Ep. 9, 35, 2: “circa proprietatem,Quint. 8, 3, 87: circa istum lacum, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 62: “erga pecuniam alienam,Tac. A. 4, 20: “diligentiam adhibere ad rem,Cic. Fam. 16, 9, 3: “in rem,id. ib. 16, 6, 1; 16, 9, 4; cf. id. ib. 16, 4, 4.—
(γ). Rarely with gen.: sacrorum, the care of, etc., Cic. Rep. 2, 14; cf.: “dignitatis commoditatisque,id. Off. 1, 39: “mandatorum tuorum,id. Top. 1 fin.: “tenuis illa divisionis,Quint. 4, 5, 6: “nostri,” i. e. affection for us, Symm. Ep. 1, 41: “Ecclesiae Dei,Vulg. 1 Tim. 3, 5.—
II. In partic., carefulness in household affairs, i. e. economy, frugality, Cic. Off. 2, 24 fin.; Auct. Her. 4, 22, 25; Suet. Galb. 12 fin.Plur. (very rare): “maritorum inefficaces diligentiae,precautions, App. M. 9, p. 224, 17.
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