ingenuity Copy link Outline 1. sollertia (sōler-)2. subtīlĭtas (nicety, refinement)3. ars, artis, f.4. māchĭnātio (contrivance) • ingenuity: 1. sollertia (sōler-): no craftsman can come up to the i. of nature, naturae sollertiam nemo opifex consequi potest imitando, Cic. N. D. 2, 32, 81. Join: machinatio [quaedam] atque sollertia, Cic. N. D. 2, 48, init.: v. skill. 2. subtīlĭtas (nicety, refinement): the perverse i. of grammarians, perversa grammaticorum s., Plin. 35, 3, 4: cf. ingenious (2). 3. ars, artis, f.: characterised by much i. (the poem of Lucretius), multae artis, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11, extr. 4. māchĭnātio (contrivance): cf. supr. (1): the pl. may be used for comprehensiveness, cf. Nägels. p. 41, sqq. (N.B.--Ingenium is mental endowment in widest sense.)
INGENUITY Copy link • INGENUITYInventive cleverness, ingenium (general term, to which acutum, magnum, docile, etc., may be added): ingenii docilitas, acies, vis, or (Nep.) celeritas: dives ingenii vena († Hor.). To have great ingenuity in anything, multum habere ingenii ad aliquid: there must be something of inventive ingenuity, ingenii celeres quidam motus esse debent et ad excogitandum acuti (☞ Cic., Or., 1, 25, 113). Ingenuousness, Vid.