solitudo
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
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sōlĭtūdo: ĭnis, f. solus,
I a being alone or solitary, loneliness, solitariness, solitude (of a person or place); a lonely place, desert, wilderness (class. in sing. and plur.; cf.: secretum, secessus).
I In gen.: ampla domus dedecori saepe domino fit, si est in eā solitudo, Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139: si aliquis nos deus ex hac hominum frequentiā tolleret et in solitudine uspiam collocaret, id. Lael. 23, 87; so (opp. frequentia) id. Pis. 22, 53; opp. celebritas, id. Inv. 1, 26, 38; Plin. Pan. 49, 2: audistis, quae solitudo in agris esset, quae vastitas, quae fuga aratorum, quam deserta, quam relicta omnia, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 51, § 114; cf.: quācumque venis, fuga est et ingens Circa te solitudo, Mart. 3, 44, 3: solitudo ante ostium, Ter. And. 2, 2, 25: ubi postquam solitudinem intellexit, Sall. J. 93, 3: erat ab oratoribus quaedam in foro solitudo, Cic. Brut. 63, 227: neque vero hic non contemptus est a tyrannis atque ejus solitudo, Nep. Thras. 2, 2: mihi solitudo et recessus provincia est, Cic. Att. 12, 26, 2: in aliquā desertissimā solitudine, id. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 171: Sigambri se in solitudinem ac silvas abdiderant, Caes. B. G. 4, 18 fin.: an malitis hanc solitudinem vestram quam urbem hostium esse? solitary, desert place (Rome), Liv. 5, 53, 7: delere omne Latium, vastas inde solitudines facere, id. 8, 13, 15; cf. id. 39, 18: nec umquam ex solitudine suā prodeuntem, nisi ut solitudinem faceret, Plin. Pan. 48 fin.: ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant, Tac. Agr. 30 fin.; Curt. 8, 8, 10; 9, 2, 24; Liv. 39, 18, 2: nivosae solitudini cohaerentes, bordering on, Amm. 23, 6, 64.— With gen.: in hac omnis humani cultūs solitudine, Curt. 7, 3, 12.—Plur., Cic. Rep. 6, 19, 20; id. Fam. 2, 16, 6; Caes. B. G. 6, 23: solitudines renuntiavere missi milites ad explorandum, Plin. 6, 29, 35, § 181; Vell. 2, 55, 4; Plin. 6, 13, 14, § 33; 6, 17, 20, § 53.—
II In partic., analog. to the Gr. ἐρημία>, in respect of something wanting, a being left alone or deserted, a state of want, destitution, deprivation: per hujus (orbae) solitudinem Te obtestor, Ter. And. 1, 5, 55; cf.: liberorum solitudo, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 58, § 153: liberorum ac parentum solitudo, Quint. 6, 1, 18: Caesenniae viduitas ac solitudo, Cic. Caecin. 5, 13; id. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 5: solitudo atque inopia, id. Quint. 1, 5; cf. id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, § 25: Messalina tribus omnino comitantibus (id repente solitudinis erat) spatium urbis pedibus emensa, Tac. A. 11, 32: magistratuum, Liv. 6, 35 fin.>
