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

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Contents (2 entries · 12 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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• indifferent:
    1. I. Not caring:
      1. 1. sēcūrus (heedless: not in this sense in Cic.): supremely i. about what may alarm Tiridates, quid T. terreat, unice s., Hor. Od. 1, 26, 6: i. to his sister's love, s. amorum germanae, Virg. Aen. 1, 346: Sil.
      2. 2. lentus (phlegmatic): Hor. S. 1, 9, 64: Cic.: v. cool (III.).
      3. 3. dissŏlūtus (lax, heedless): of so i. a temper as to endure this, tam d. animo, ut hoc ferre posset, cf. Cic. R. Am. 11, 32.
      4. 4. indiffĕrens, ntis (rare): i. about diet, circa victum i., Suet. Caes. 53.
      5. 5. incūriōsus (unconcerned), rĕmissus (slack, wanting in vigour): Join: remissus ac languidus animus, Caes. B. C. 1, 21: v. remiss. Phr.: to be i.: (1.) nil mŏror, 1 (not to care for or value: with acc.): all those things I am i. to, ista omnia nil moror, Pl. Aul. 2, 1, 49: Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 16. (2.) lentē s. indiffĕrenter fero, 3, irr. (to take a thing coolly or i.): comp. preced. art. (3.) neglĭgo, exi, ectum, 3 (to disregard): to be i. to threats, minas n., Cic. Quint. 30, 92; to money, pecuniam n., Sen. V. B. 27, 6: foll. by inf. (poet.), to be i. to the perpetration of a crime, n. fraudem committere, Hor. Od. 1, 29, 30. (4.) obdūresco, dūrui, 3 (to become hardened and so i.): through despair the mind becomes i. to grief, desperatione rerum ob. animus ad dolorem, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, init.: also of the deadening of affection, ib. 5, 15. (5.) expr. by intĕrest, rēfert: I am quite i. on that point, id mea nihil refert, interest: L. G. § 283, Obs. (6.) expr. by cūro, cūrae est, magni facio, aestimo, with a negative: v. to care for.
    2. II. Of neutral character; neither good nor bad:
      1. 1. indiffĕrens, ntis (in phil. sense): used by Cic. = Gr. [Greek: adiaphoros], Fin. 3, 16, 53.
      2. 2. mĕdiocris, e (in popular sense, middling): cf. Hor. A. P. 372: v. middling.
      3. 3. mĕdius: i. pursuits, artes m. (expl. as quae neque laudari per se nec vituperari possunt), Quint. 2, 20, 1: an i. character, m. ingenium, Tac. H. 1, 49.
      4. 4. expr. by circuml., nec bonus nec malus, cf. Cic. Fin. l. c.
      5. 5. sometimes neuter may serve, when good and bad are mentioned: e. g. quid bonum sit, quid malum, quid neutrum, Cic. Div. 2, 4, init. (R. and A.).
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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• INDIFFERENT
  • Neutral as to good or evil: of a middling quality; nec bonus, nec malus: indifferens (neither good nor bad, both Cic., Fin., 3, 16, 53; but the last only as an attempted translation of the Greek: ἀδιάφορον): medius: qui (quae, quod) neque laudari per se neque vituperari potest (holding the mean between what deserves censure on the one hand and blame on the other, Quint., 2, 20, 1): mediocris (moderate; indifferently good ; e.g., sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura): neuter (neither morally good nor bad: indifferent in a moral sense; only, of course, when “good” and “bad” are mentioned; e.g., quid bonum sit, quid malum, quid neutrum, and what indifferent, Cic., Divin., 2, 4).
  • Unconcerned, securus (without any anxiety on the subject): dissolutus (phlegmatic, letting everything take its own course; e.g., quis tam dissoluto animo est, qui haec cum videat, tacere ac negligere possit? Cic., Rosc. Am., 11, 32): lentus (slow to receive impressions, to feel sympathy, or take interest in anything; in a bad sense; ☞ Drak. and Fabri, Liv., 22, 14). An indifferent look, vultus non mutatus: to put on an indifferent look, vultum non mutare: it is indifferent to me whether, nihil mea interest or refert (utrum, etc. Vid: Zumpt, 449): I am indifferent to anybody or anything, aliquid, or aliquem non, or nihil curo; aliquid or aliquis mihi non cordi est; aliquid ad curam meam non pertinet; aliquid or aliquem negligo; de aliqua re non laboro (I feel no care or anxiety about anything; do not trouble, myself about it): aliqua re non moveor (am not affected by it; e.g., to be indifferent to money, pecunia, non moveri): aliquid or aliquem despicio or contemno (think it or him beneath my notice). He is indifferent to the opinions of others, negligit or nihil curat, quid de se quisque sentiat: I am not indifferent to anything, aliquid mihi curae or non sine cura est; aliquid ad curam meam pertinet; aliquid a me non alienum puto: I am not indifferent to the breach of the treaty, non pro nihilo mihi est foedus rumpi (†): I have grown indifferent to pain, obduruit animus ad dolorem novum: to be indifferent, in neutram partem moveri (a philosophical technical term, Cic., Acad., 2, 42, 130): I am indifferent to the attractions of a place, alicujus loci voluptates inoffensus transmitto: I am indifferent to everything but your safety, nihil laboro nisi ut salvus sis (Cic.).