I.slowness, tardiness (class.).
I. Lit., of motion or action: “celeritati tarditas, non debilitas (contraria est),” Cic. Top. 11, 47: “pedum,” id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21: “cursu corrigam tarditatem tum equis tum quadrigis,” id. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 2: “vehiculis tarditati,” id. Rep. 3, 2, 3: “navium,” Caes. B. C. 1, 58: “onerariae navis,” Tac. A. 2, 39: “mula effrenis et tarditatis indomitae,” Plin. 8, 44, 69, § 171: “occasionis,” Cic. Phil. 2, 46, 118; cf.: “moram et tarditatem afferre bello,” id. ib. 5, 9, 25: “tarditas et procrastinatio in rebus gerendis,” id. ib. 6, 3, 7: “cunctatio ac tarditas,” id. Sest. 47, 100: “nosti hominis tarditatem,” id. Fam. 1, 5, b, 2: “quid si etiam affert tarditatem ista sententia ad Dolabellam persequendum,” id. Phil. 11, 10, 25; id. Brut. 42, 154: “propter tarditatem sententiarum moramque rerum,” id. Fam. 10, 22, 2: “tanta fuit operis tarditas,” id. Cat. 3, 8, 20: “audientium,” dulness, Plin. 20, 9, 33, § 83; so, “aurium,” id. 20, 13, 51, § 137; 23, 2, 28, § 59: “veneni,” slow effect, Tac. A. 16, 14 fin. —In plur.: “celeritates tarditatesque,” Cic. Univ. 9: “cavendum est, ne tarditatibus utamur in ingressu mollioribus,” id. Off. 1, 36, 131.—
II. Trop., of the mind, slowness, dulness, heaviness, stupidity: “ingenii,” Cic. Or. 68, 229; so, “ingenii (connected with stupor),” id. Pis. 1, 1; cf.: “tarditas animi et stupor,” Gell. 16, 12, 3: “ingenii,” Quint. 1, 1, 1: “quid adjectius tarditate et stultitiā dici potest?” Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 51: “hominum,” id. N. D. 1, 5, 11: “opinio tarditatis,” id. de Or. 1, 27, 125.
