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siccĭtas , ātis (
I.gen. plur. siccitatium, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 222), f. siccus, dryness, siccity (freq. and class.; used alike in sing. and plur.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: ab lippitudine usque siccitas ut sit tibi, * Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 18: “uvae,Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 315: “palmarum,id. 13, 4, 9, § 47.—
B. In partic.
3. Of the human body, dryness, siccity, as a state of health; freedom from gross humors (opp. rheum, catarrh, tumefaction, etc.), firmness, solidity: Persae eam sunt consecuti corporis siccitatem, ut neque spuerent neque emungerentur suffiatoque corpore essent, Varr. ap. Non. 395, 7: adde siccitatem, quae consequitur hanc continentiam in victu; “adde integritatem valetudinis,Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 99: “corporis,id. Sen. 10, 34.—
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 3.1.1
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 4.38
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 5.24
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.27.71
    • Plautus, Rudens, 3.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 13.47
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 4, 30
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 29
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.1
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 10
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.34
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.27
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.1
    • Cicero, Brutus, 82.285
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