sagacity Copy link Outline 1. prūdentia (sensibleness)2. săgācĭtas (keen-tracking wit, resembling the instinct of hounds which track by scent)3. perspĭcācĭtas (sharp-sightedness) • sagacity: 1. prūdentia (sensibleness): Plin. 8, 1, 1 (of elephants): cf. sagacious (1). 2. săgācĭtas (keen-tracking wit, resembling the instinct of hounds which track by scent): Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, 105: the s. of Hipparchus discovered ..., Hipparchi sagacitate repertum est, Plin. 2, 13, 10. 3. perspĭcācĭtas (sharp-sightedness): Cic.: v. penetration. Phr.: possessed of (great) s., prudens, alti ingenii, etc. (v. sagacious): wanting in s., hebes, tardus (tardioris ingenii): v. dull, slow.
SAGACITY Copy link • SAGACITYsagacitas (power of tracing things to their causes; by metonymy, from hounds): ingenii acumen or acies (the former implying more of depth; of original and inventive ability), and acumen only: perspicacitas: prudentia perspicax (insight, taking in all at one glance): subtilitas (fine discrimination). To possess natural sagacity, natura acutum esse: such is his own sagacity, qua est ipse sagacitate.