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Menander, Monostichoi, 125

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

vīcīnĭtas: ātis, f. id.,
I neighborhood, nearness, proximity, vicinity (class.).
I Lit.: vel virtus tua me vel vicinitas Facit, ut te audacter moneam, etc., Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 4: propter vicinitatem totos dies simul eramus, Cic. Att. 5, 10, 5: scire hoc propter vicinitatem facile possum, id. Planc. 8, 19; cf.: quorum et vicinitas propinqua et multitudo esset infinita, Hirt. B. G. 8, 7.—Plur.: amicitiae, consuetudines, vicinitates, clientelae, ludi denique ... quid haberent voluptatis, etc., Cic. Red. Quir. 1, 3; cf. B. 2. infra.—
   B Transf., concr.
   1    The neighborhood, vicinity, region: in Umbriā atque in eā vicinitate, Cic. Rosc. Am. 16, 48.—
   2    Neighborhood, i. q. neighbors (class.): si te libenter vicinitas videbit, Cato, R. R. 4: signum, quod erat notum vicinitati, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 96; id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8: caritas serpit foras cognationibus primum, tum affinitatibus, deinde amicitiis, post vicinitatibus, id. Fin. 5, 23, 65; id. Planc. 9, 22; id. Rab. Perd. 3, 8; id. Rosc. Am. 6, 15; Caes. B. G. 6, 34; Nep. Alcib. 10, 3; Sall. C. 36, 1; Suet. Aug. 6; Plin. 18, 6, 8, § 41.— Cf. <number opt="n">plur.</number>: conveniet autem cum in dando munificum esse, tum in exigendo non acerbum, in omnique re contrahendā ... vicinitatibus et confiniis aequum, Cic. Off. 2, 18, 64.—
II Trop., near likeness, resemblance, similarity, congeniality, affinity: est quaedam inter epichirema et syllogismum vicinitas, Quint. 5, 10, 6: virtutibus ac vitiis, id. 3, 7, 25: excusantur vitia vicinitate vitiorum, id. 1, 5, 5: nominis (cyperi et cypiri), Plin. 21, 18, 69, § 115.