zeal Copy link Outline 1. stŭdium2. ardor, ōris (warm eagerness)3. fervor, ōris4. ălacrĭtas (readiness for action)5. industria (diligence) • zeal: 1. stŭdium: to employ z. and pains in anything, s. operamque in re ponere, Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 1: let there be ever z., never delay, s. semper adsit, cunctatio absit, id. Am. 13, 44: to show readiness and z., alacritate ac studio uti, Caes. B. G. 4, 24: I promise you my best z., tibi polliceor eximium meum studium, Cic. Fam. 5, 8, 4: our countrymen burned with z. for oratory, nostri homines dicendi studio flagraverunt, id. de Or. 1, 4, 14: to be possessed with z., teneri studio, Cic. 2. ardor, ōris (warm eagerness): such was their z. for the fight, tantus fuit a. armorum, Liv. 22, 5: whose rashness we checked and quenched their z., quorum repressimus impetum ardoremque restinximus, Cic. ad Br. 2, 7, 1. 3. fervor, ōris: youthful z., f. aetatis, id. Sen. 13, 45. 4. ălacrĭtas (readiness for action): z. in defence of the state, a. reipublicae defendendae, id. Phil. 4, 1, 1. 5. industria (diligence): to employ z. in writing, i. in scribendo ponere, id. Fam. 3, 9, 3: devotion and z., studium et industria, id. Sen. 7, 22. Phr.: I will attend to it with z. and diligence, studiose diligenterque curabo, id. Att. 16, 16, A., 5: such was his painstaking and constant z., talis erat labor, assiduitas, id. Balb. 2, 6.