QUALITY Copy link • QUALITYNature, kind, qualitas (ποιότης, only as philosophical technical term): natura; ratio (Cic.); indoles: ingenium (natural, peculiar, essential quality): constitutio (quality as derived from its formation). Peculiar quality, proprietas; (of wine) nota (Cic., Hor., Col.); e.g., vini nota optima, acetum primae notae, diversae notae esse (Col.). High rank, claritas generis (Quint.); claritudo familiae (Tac.): persons of quality, homines illustri loco nati: he is a man of quality, est vir nobiliore, illustriore loco natus; genere et dignitate conspicuus.