malitia: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>mălĭtĭa</b>: ae, f. [[malus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[bad]] [[quality]], [[badness]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[post]]-[[class]].): terrae [[malitia]], Pall. 1, 6: arboris, [[unfruitfulness]], id. 11, 8.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[ill]]-[[will]], [[spite]], [[malice]] ([[class]].): virtutis contraria est [[vitiositas]]: sic [[enim]] [[malo]], [[quam]] malitiam, appellare eam, [[quam]] [[Graeci]] κακίαν appellant: nam [[malitia]] certi cujusdam vitii [[nomen]] est: [[vitiositas]] omnium, Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34: est [[enim]] [[malitia]] versuta et [[fallax]] nocendi [[ratio]], id. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Rosc. Com. 16, 46: per summam fraudem et malitiam, id. Quint. 18, 56; id. Clu. 26, 70; opp. to [[virtus]]: virtute, non [[malitia]], P. Scipioni placuisse, Sall. J. 22, 2.—With [[malus]]: [[sine]] [[mala]] omni [[malitia]], Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 38.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: [[collatio]] nostrarum malitiarum, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 66: [[everriculum]] malitiarum omnium, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Cunning, [[artfulness]]: [[muliebris]] [[malitia]] adhibenda est mihi, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 23.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Sometimes in a [[good]] [[sense]], [[like]] [[our]] [[roguery]], Cic. Att. 15, 26, 4: [[tamen]] a [[malitia]] non discedis, [[you]] do not [[desist]] from [[your]] [[roguery]], id. Fam. 9, 19, 1.