INDIFFERENT Copy link • INDIFFERENTNeutral as to good or evil: of a middling quality; nec bonus, nec malus: indifferens (neither good nor bad, both Cic., Fin., 3, 16, 53; but the last only as an attempted translation of the Greek: ἀδιάφορον): medius: qui (quae, quod) neque laudari per se neque vituperari potest (holding the mean between what deserves censure on the one hand and blame on the other, Quint., 2, 20, 1): mediocris (moderate; indifferently good ; e.g., sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura): neuter (neither morally good nor bad: indifferent in a moral sense; only, of course, when “good” and “bad” are mentioned; e.g., quid bonum sit, quid malum, quid neutrum, and what indifferent, Cic., Divin., 2, 4). Unconcerned, securus (without any anxiety on the subject): dissolutus (phlegmatic, letting everything take its own course; e.g., quis tam dissoluto animo est, qui haec cum videat, tacere ac negligere possit? Cic., Rosc. Am., 11, 32): lentus (slow to receive impressions, to feel sympathy, or take interest in anything; in a bad sense; ☞ Drak. and Fabri, Liv., 22, 14). An indifferent look, vultus non mutatus: to put on an indifferent look, vultum non mutare: it is indifferent to me whether, nihil mea interest or refert (utrum, etc. Vid: Zumpt, 449): I am indifferent to anybody or anything, aliquid, or aliquem non, or nihil curo; aliquid or aliquis mihi non cordi est; aliquid ad curam meam non pertinet; aliquid or aliquem negligo; de aliqua re non laboro (I feel no care or anxiety about anything; do not trouble, myself about it): aliqua re non moveor (am not affected by it; e.g., to be indifferent to money, pecunia, non moveri): aliquid or aliquem despicio or contemno (think it or him beneath my notice). He is indifferent to the opinions of others, negligit or nihil curat, quid de se quisque sentiat: I am not indifferent to anything, aliquid mihi curae or non sine cura est; aliquid ad curam meam pertinet; aliquid a me non alienum puto: I am not indifferent to the breach of the treaty, non pro nihilo mihi est foedus rumpi (†): I have grown indifferent to pain, obduruit animus ad dolorem novum: to be indifferent, in neutram partem moveri (a philosophical technical term, Cic., Acad., 2, 42, 130): I am indifferent to the attractions of a place, alicujus loci voluptates inoffensus transmitto: I am indifferent to everything but your safety, nihil laboro nisi ut salvus sis (Cic.).