confidence Copy link Outline 1. fĭdes, ĕi, f. (the most gen. term)2. fīdūcia (confidence, assurance)3. fīdentia4. confīdentia • confidence: 1. fĭdes, ĕi, f. (the most gen. term): I had almost more c. in you than in myself, f. majorem tibi habui quam paene ipsi mihi, Cic.: many promises diminish c., multa fidem promissa levant, Hor. 2. fīdūcia (confidence, assurance): I have already hope of you, not yet c., jam de te spem habeo, nondum f., Sen.: c. in (superior military) position, f. loci, Caes.: c. in one's own fortune, f. rerum suarum, Caes.: v. trust. 3. fīdentia: esp. as tech. term: the characteristic of the person who is inspired with fiducia: Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 163: "fidentia est firma animi confisio," Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80. 4. confīdentia: esp. of over-confidence, self-confidence: he said he lacked two things (for being a public speaker), c. and voice, dixit duas sibi res, c. et vocem defuisse, Cic.: v. assurance. Phr.: to have c., fīdo, confīdo, fīsus sum, 3 (for constr. v. to confide): nor did the soldiers feel more c. in any other chief, neque milites alio duce plus confidere, Liv.: I feel a strong c. that, etc., magnus mihi animus est (foll. by acc. and inf.), Tac.: in this legion Caesar had the greatest c., huic legioni Caesar confidebat maxime, Caes.: somewhat less strong is crēdo, 3 (with dat.): v. to trust: when you have got c., cum os perfricuisti, Cic.: town-bred c., or assurance, urbana frons, Hor.: v. effrontery: to tell any one a secret in c., tutis auribus aliquid deponere, Hor.: to take any one into c., aliquem in conscientiam (esp. consilii) sumere, Tac.: v. confidant (Phr.).