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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 5 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• flexibility:
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. lentĭtia: twigs of pliant f. for bands (withes), virgae sequacis ad vincturas l., Plin. 16, 37, 68.
      2. 2. lentor: the ash is chosen on account of its f, the oak for its hardness, lentore fraxinus, duritia ilex legitur, Plin. 16, 43, 84. (May usu. be expr. by adj.: no tree exceeds the willow in f., nulla arbor salice flexibilior: v. flexible.)
    2. II. Fig.: of character: mollĭtia, mollĭties: a kind of tenderness and f., teneritas quaedam et mollities, Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58: agility and, so to speak, f. of nature, agilitas, ut ita dicam, mollitiesque, Cic. Att. 1. 17, 1. (Oftener used in bad sense: v. softness, effeminacy.)
      1. 2. făcĭlĭtas (easiness of being wrought upon): the f. of childhood, f. (puerilis) aetatis, Quint. 1, 12, 11. (Or expr. by adj.: diction of such f. as to follow wherever you turn it, oratio ita flexibilis, ut sequatur quocunque torqueas, Quint.: v. flexible.) N.B.--Flexibilitas is without good authority.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FLEXIBILITY, FLEXIBLENESS
habilitas: mollitia (e.g., cervicis): facilitas: mores faciles: animus facilis (with reference to character): obsequium: obsequentia (a yielding to anything, compliance; the latter, *Caes., B.G., 7, 29). Flexibility of the joints, molles commissurae; of the voice, vocis mollitudo: natural flexibility of anybody’s character (i. e., tractability), natura tractabilis.