PRUDENCE Copy link • PRUDENCEprudentia: providentia (foresight, guarding against a foreseen danger, Liv., 30, 5, 5): circumspectio (Cic.): circumspectum judicium (well-weighed judgement; for which Gell. has circumspicientia). (The words are found in this connection and order.) circumspectio et accurata consideratio (Cic.): cautio: diligentia: gravitas (habit of acting carefully after deliberation). The thing demands much prudence, res multas cautiones habet; res est multae diligentiae: to act with much prudence in any matter, cautionem or diligentiam adhibere in aliqua re; omne cautionis genus adhibere in re with prudence; Vid: PRUDENTLY.