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|lshtext=<b>nōbĭlĭtas</b>: ātis, f. [[nobilis]].<br /><b>I</b> Celebrity, [[fame]], [[renown]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): eam nobilitatem amittundam [[video]], Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 14: praedicationem nobilitatemque despicere, Cic. Arch. 11, 26: repentina, Liv. 1, 34; cf.: aliquem nobilitate praecurrere, Nep. Thras. 1, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> High or [[noble]] [[birth]], [[nobility]]: ad illustrandam nobilitatem suam, Cic. Brut. 16, 62: nobilitate sui municipii [[facile]] [[primus]], id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15; Ov. P. 4, 16, 44; Juv. 8, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> [[Meton]]., the [[nobility]], the nobles, the [[aristocracy]]: nobilitatis [[fautor]], Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: [[omnis]] [[noster]] [[nobilitas]] interiit, Caes. B. G. 7, 38: [[nobilitas]] rempublicam deseruerat, Liv. 26, 12; opp. [[plebs]], id. 6, 42: [[superbia]] [[commune]] nobilitatis [[malum]], Sall. J. 64, 1; Luc. 3, 77.—With [[verb]] in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: [[namque]] coepere [[nobilitas]] dignitatem in dominationem vertere, Sall. J. 41, 5. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur.: [[Claudius]] nobilitatibus externis [[mitis]], princes, Tac. A. 12, 20.—<br /><b>III</b> Noble or [[excellent]] [[quality]], [[nobleness]], [[excellence]], [[superiority]]: cum florere Isocratem nobilitate discipulorum videret, Cic. de Or. 3, 35, 141: eloquio [[tantum]] nobilitatis inest, Ov. P. 2, 5, 56; Vell. 1, 4, 2: nobilitate ingenitā, Tac. A. 1, 29: prima [[croco]] Cilicio, Plin. 21, 6, 17, § 31: locorum, id. 3, 5, 6, § 40: columbarum, id. 10, 37, 53, § 110: obstetricum [[nobilitas]] (i. e. nobilissimae obstetrices), id. 28, 6, 18, § 67.—Prov.: [[nobilitas]] sola est [[atque]] unica [[virtus]], Juv. 8, 20.