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sanctĭtas , ātis, f. sanctus.
I. Inviolability, sacredness, sanctity: “tribunatūs,” Cic. Sest. 37, 79: regum, Caes. ap. Suet. Caes. 6; cf.: regii nominis, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. G. 4, 211: “sanctitas templi insulaeque,” Liv. 44, 29: “templo sanctitatem tribuere,” Tac. A. 3, 62 fin.; cf.: “augusti atque inviolati soli,” Liv. 45, 5: “fori,” Quint. 11, 3, 58: “mecum deorum et hominum sanctitates omnes et religiones afuerunt,” Cic. Red. in Sen. 14, 34: propter sanctitatem aliquam, Massur. Sabin. ap. Gell. 4, 9, 8: patria sanctitas, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 4, 2.—
II. (Acc. to sanctus, B.) Moral purity, holiness, sanctity, virtue, piety, integrity, honor, purity, chastity, etc.: “omnes cives sic existimant, quasi lumen aliquod exstinctis ceteris elucere sanctitatem et prudentiam et dignitatem tuam,” Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 2; cf.: “exemplum veteris sanctitatis,” id. Phil. 3, 6, 15: “deos ipsos innocentiā et sanctitate laetari,” Plin. Pan. 3 fin.: “si pudor, si modestia, si pudicitia, si temperantia poenae metu coercebuntur, non sanctitate suā se tuebuntur?” virtue, Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 73: “deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas,” id. Off. 2, 3, 11; cf.: “sanctitas est scientia colendorum deorum,” id. N. D. 1, 41, 116: “quae potest esse pietas? quae sanctitas? quae religio?... cum quā (pietate) simulet sanctitatem et religionem tolli necesse est,” id. ib. 1, 2, 3; cf. id. Top. 23, 90.—Plur.: “deorum cultus religionumque sanctitates,” Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5: “matronarum,” id. Cael. 13, 32; cf. Inscr. Orell. 2739; and: “pudorem sanctitatemque feminarum abrogare,” Liv. 34, 6; so, “dominae,” Tac. A. 14, 60: “docentis,” towards his pupils, Quint. 2, 2, 3: “ducis,” Flor. 2, 6, 40. —Of a man, chastity, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 5; Vell. 2, 29, 3; Sid. Ep. 6, 10: “vir summae sanctitatis,” Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 21: “sanctitas (orationis) Calvi,” Quint. 12, 10, 11; cf.: “sanctitas et ut sic dicam virilitas ab his (sc. veteribus Latinis) petenda,” id. 1, 8, 9 (v. sanctus, near the end).—As the title of a bishop, Cassiod. Var. 3, 37.
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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