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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelleLove that moves the sun and the other stars

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

aequālĭtas: ātis, f. aequalis,
I equality, similarity, uniformity (syn.: similitudo, planities, aequitas).
I In gen.: similitudo aequalitasque verborum, Cic. Part. Or 6: fraterna, id. Lig. 12; Vulg. 2 Cor. 8, 13, 14.—
II In Tac. freq. of political equality, = ἰσοτιμία>: omnes exutā aequalitate jussa principis aspectare, Tac. A. 1, 4; 3, 74; cf. id. ib. 26, and id. H. 2, 38.—
III Of equality in age (cf. aequalis, II.): et aequalitas vestra et pares honorum gradus, Cic Brut. 42.—
The equality, evenness of a place: maris, i. e. mare tranquillum, a calm, γαλήνη>, Sen, Ep. 53: (Oesypum) carnes excrescentes ad aequalitatem reducit, Plin. 30, 13, 39, § 113.