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nōbĭlĭtas , ātis, f. nobilis.
I. Celebrity, fame, renown (very rare): “eam nobilitatem amittundam video,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 14: “praedicationem nobilitatemque despicere,” Cic. Arch. 11, 26: “repentina,” Liv. 1, 34; cf.: “aliquem nobilitate praecurrere,” Nep. Thras. 1, 3.—
II. High or noble birth, nobility: “ad illustrandam nobilitatem suam,” Cic. Brut. 16, 62: “nobilitate sui municipii facile primus,” id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15; Ov. P. 4, 16, 44; Juv. 8, 20.—
B. Meton., the nobility, the nobles, the aristocracy: “nobilitatis fautor,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: “omnis noster nobilitas interiit,” Caes. B. G. 7, 38: “nobilitas rempublicam deseruerat,” Liv. 26, 12; “opp. plebs,” id. 6, 42: “superbia commune nobilitatis malum,” Sall. J. 64, 1; Luc. 3, 77.—With verb in plur.: “namque coepere nobilitas dignitatem in dominationem vertere,” Sall. J. 41, 5. —
(β). Plur.: “Claudius nobilitatibus externis mitis,” princes, Tac. A. 12, 20.—
III. Noble or excellent quality, nobleness, excellence, superiority: “cum florere Isocratem nobilitate discipulorum videret,” Cic. de Or. 3, 35, 141: “eloquio tantum nobilitatis inest,” Ov. P. 2, 5, 56; Vell. 1, 4, 2: “nobilitate ingenitā,” Tac. A. 1, 29: “prima croco Cilicio,” Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 31: “locorum,” id. 3, 5, 6, § 40: “columbarum,” id. 10, 37, 53, § 110: “obstetricum nobilitas (i. e. nobilissimae obstetrices),” id. 28, 6, 18, § 67.—Prov.: “nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus,” Juv. 8, 20.
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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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.38
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 6.15
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 6.16
    • Cicero, For Archias, 11.26
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.29
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.20
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 4.8
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.35
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 64
    • Lucan, Civil War, 3.77
    • Cornelius Nepos, Thrasybulus, 1.3
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 21.31
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 28.67
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.40
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 42
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 34
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 12
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 41
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 2.5
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 4.16
    • Cicero, Brutus, 16.62
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