I. Lit.
A. Country life and occupations, i. e. tillage, husbandry, Pall. Insit. 11.—
B. Concr., country people, Pall. 1, 31; Cod. Just. 1, 55, 3.—
II. Transf., the manners of the country or of country people, rustic behavior, rusticity (opp. urbanitas); “in a good and (more freq.) in a bad sense: patria est ei Brixia, ex illā nostrā Italiā, quae multum adhuc verecundiae, frugalitatis atque etiam rusticitatis antiquae retinet ac servat,” Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 4; cf. Plin. 35, 4, 9, § 26; Calp. Ecl. 4, 4.—In a bad sense: “cultus adest, nec nostros mansit in annos Rusticitas priscis illa superstes avis,” Ov. A. A. 3, 128: “rusticitas, non pudor ille fuit,” id. ib. 1, 672: “vultus sine rusticitate pudentes,” id. H. 20, 59: “(urbanitas) cui contraria sit rusticitas,” Quint. 6, 3, 17; cf.: “et imperitia, et rusticitas, et rigor,” id. 6, 1, 37: “in quo (ore) nulla neque rusticitas neque peregrinitas resonet,” id. 11, 3, 30: “verborum atque ipsius etiam soni,” id. 11, 3, 10: “aliquem rusticitatis arguere,” Suet. Caes. 53: “ignorare propter rusticitatem jus suum,” Dig. 49, 14, 2 fin.
