felicitas (success in one’s undertakings, etc): as an abstract. term, always rendered in Cic., by “vita beata,” or by circumlocution, “beate vivere;” e.g., the happiness of life consists in virtue only, beate vivere est una positum in virtute, or omnia, quae ad beatam pertinent, in una virtute sunt posita; compare Cic., De Fin. 2, 27, where we find several similar periphrases. The words “beatitas” and “beatitudo,” although formed by Cic. himself, N.D., 1, 34, 95, are pronounced by him to be rather harsh, and have not been used by him elsewhere, or by any other writer, and are admissible only in the absence of a more appropriate word, or in a strictly philosophical style. To enjoy everlasting happiness, beatum sempiterno aevo frui (Cic., Somn. Scip., 3, in.). I had the happiness to, etc., contigit mihi ut, etc.