I.attentiveness, attention, application.
A. With animi: reliqua sunt in curā, attentione animi, cogitatione, vigilantiā, etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 150.—
B. Absol.: “docilem sine dubio et haec ipsa praestat attentio,” Quint. 4, 1, 34: “cum (servos) tantā cruciāsti attentione,” Vulg. Sap. 12, 20.