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firmĭtas , ātis, f. firmus,
I.firmness, durability, strength (class.; syn.: constantia, firmitudo, perseverantia).
II. Trop., firmness, steadfastness, stability, endurance, constancy, power: “firmitas et constantia,Cic. Fam. 9, 11, 1: “animi,id. Sest. 44, 95; id. Att. 12, 38, 3; id. Tusc. 5, 26, 74: “sapientis,id. Ac. 2, 20, 66: exercitus numero amplissimus, firmitate exiguus, Planc. in Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 3: “ut quisque minimum firmitatis haberet minimumque virium, ita amicitias appetere maxime,Cic. Lael. 13, 46; cf.: “ea (amicitia) non satis habet firmitatis,id. ib. 5, 19: “si aliquid firmitatis nactus sit Antonius,id. Fam. 11, 12, 1: “imperii,Suet. Vesp. 7.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 10.24.3
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 11.12.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.11.1
    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.25.63
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 44.95
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 3.2
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 2.6
    • Caesar, Civil War, 2.11.1
    • Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus, 7
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.14
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 20.42
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.21
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.40
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.1
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.19
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 13
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.26
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 16.13
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 4.16
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.16
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.19
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.40
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.3.4
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