INDUSTRY Copy link • INDUSTRYindustria (habitual industry of an elevated kind; opposed to segnitia): navitas (habitual industry of a useful kind; e.g., inbusiness; opposed to ignavia): labor (laborious exertion). (The words are found in this connection and order.) industria et labor: opera (the mental and bodily activity bestowed upon anything): assiduitas (constancy, endurance in a business): sedulitas (activity, bustling disposition) impigritas (unwearied application, etc., Cic., ap. Non., 125, 20): diligentia (care and attention in doing one’s work). (The words are found in this connection and order.) industria et diligentia: studium (internal impulse, inclination for an occupation). A composition shows much industry and care, together with much learning, in libro multa industria et diligentia comparet, multa doctrina: a person shows remarkable industry in anything, in aliqua re singulari est industria. (both Nep., Cat., 3, 1 and 4): to feel the want of anybody’s industry and care, desiderare alicujus industriam et diligentiam: to bestow industry upon anything, industriam locare, diligentiam adhibere, studium collocare in re; industriam ponere, exponere in re; operam in re locare, ponere, in rem conferre; operam alicui rei tribuere; operam (laborem) ad or in aliquid impendere: to show all possible industry, omnes industriae nervos intendere: to follow any pursuit or business with the greatest possible industry, omnem industriam or diligentiam ponere in re; omne studium conferre in aliquid; omni cogitatione et curā incumbere in aliquid; totum animum atque diligentiam ponere in re; totum se conferre ad studium alicujus rei; totum et mente et animo insistere in aliquid: to pursue an object with great industry, multum studii adhibere ad aliquid; operae plurimum studiique in aliqua re consumere; magnum studium et multam operam conferre ad aliquid; multum operae laborisque in re consumere; multo sudore et labore facere aliquid; desudare et laborare in re: to rouse one’s industry, industriam acuere: my industry shall not be wanting in it, mea industria in ea re non deerit: with industry [Vid: INDUSTRIOUSLY]. A school of industry, *schola artium fovendarum causa instituta.