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ălăcrĭtas , ātis, f. alacer,
I.the condition or quality of alacer, liveliness, ardor, briskness, alacrity, eagerness, promptness, joy, gladness: “alacritas rei publicae defendendae,Cic. Phil. 4, 1: “mirā sum alacritate ad litigandum,Cic. Att. 2, 7; so id. ib. 16, 3: “alacritas studiumque pugnandi,Caes. B. G. 1, 46: “animi incitatio atque alacritas,id. B. C. 3, 92: “alacritas animae suae,Vulg. Eccli. 45, 29: “finem orationis ingens alacritas consecuta est,Tac. Agr. 35: “(naves) citae remis augebantur alacritate militum in speciem ac terrorem,id. A. 2, 6.—Of animals: “canum in venando,Cic. N. D. 2, 63. —Of a joyous state of mind as made known by external demeanor, transport, rapture, ecstasy: “inanis alacritas, id est laetitia gestiens,Cic. Tusc. 4, 16, 36: “vir temperatus, constans, sine metu, sine aegritudine, sine alacritate ullā, sine libidine,id. ib. 5, 16, 48. —With obj. gen., joy on account of something: “clamor Romanorum alacritate perfecti operis sublatus,Liv. 2, 10 med.—* In plur.: “vigores quidam mentium et alacritates,Gell. 19, 12, 4.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.7
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.46
    • Cicero, Philippics, 4.1
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 45.29
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.92
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.6
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 35
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 10
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.63
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 4.16
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.12.4
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