refinement Copy link Outline I. Polished manners1. hūmānĭtas (good manners; esp. as the result of education)2. cultus, ūs (culture, civilisation)3. urbānĭtas4. ēlĕgantiaII. Subtlety1. subtīlĭtas2. argūtiŏla (quibble) • refinement: I. Polished manners: 1. hūmānĭtas (good manners; esp. as the result of education): a youth of the greatest excellence and r., summa virtute et h. adolescens, Caes. B. G. 1, 47: a life of the most polished r., vita perpolita humanitate, Cic. Sest. 42, 92: letters seasoned with the salt of r., epistolae humanitatis sparsae sale, id. Att. 1, 13, ad init.: breaches of r., ea quae multum ab h. discrepant, id. Off. 1, 40, 145. 2. cultus, ūs (culture, civilisation): gorgeous splendour and r. of life, magnifici apparatus vitaeque c., Cic. Off. 1, 8, 25: the r. of social and political life, humanus c. civilisque, id. de Or. 1, 8, 33. Join: c. atque humanitas, Caes. B. G. 1, 1. 3. urbānĭtas: r., of which boorishness is the opposite, u. cui contraria sit rusticitas, Quint. 6, 3, 17: a language tinged, so to speak, with a certain r., urbanitate quadam quasi colorata oratio, Cic. Brut. 46, 170: an air of r., odor urbanitatis, id. de Or. 3, 40, 161. 4. ēlĕgantia: r. of life, e. vitae, Tac. A. 14, 19: the master of r. (i. e. leader of "ton"), e. arbiter, id. A. 16, 18: agriculture is incompatible with all higher r., agri cultura ab omni politiore e. abhorret, Cic. Fin. 3, 2, 4. Join: e. et munditia, id. Or. 23, 79. II. Subtlety: 1. subtīlĭtas: there is room for this extreme r., est huic minutae subtilitati locus, Cic. Brut. 84, 291: v. subtlety. 2. argūtiŏla (quibble): I do not think that that r. ought to be admitted, non puto a. istam recipiendam. Gell. 9, 14, extr.: v. quibble. Phr.: to neglect the r.s of (logical) partition and definition, spinas partiendi et definiendi praetermittere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, 9: an oration weakened by over-r., oratio nimia religione attenuata. id. Brut. 82, 283.