pertinacia
οὐκ ἐπιλογιζόμενος ὅτι ἅμα μὲν ὀδύρῃ τὴν ἀναισθησίαν, ἅμα δὲ ἀλγεῖς ἐπὶ σήψεσι καὶ στερήσει τῶν ἡδέων, ὥσπερ εἰς ἕτερον ζῆν ἀποθανούμενος, ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ εἰς παντελῆ μεταβαλῶν ἀναισθησίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν τῇ πρὸ τῆς γενέσεως → you do not consider that you are at one and the same time lamenting your want of sensation, and pained at the idea of your rotting away, and of being deprived of what is pleasant, as if you are to die and live in another state, and not to pass into insensibility complete, and the same as that before you were born
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
pertĭnācĭa: ae, f. pertinax,
I perseverance, constancy, in a good sense; and (more freq.) in a bad sense, obstinacy, pertinacity (syn.: perseverantia, pervicacia): dicitur quom demonstratur in quo non debet pertendi et pertendit, pertinaciam esse; in quo oportet manere, si in eo perstet, perseverantia sit, Varr. L. L. 5, § 2 Müll.; cf.: unicuique virtuti finitimum vitium reperietur, ut pertinacia, quae perseverantiae finitima est, Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 165; v. Att. ap. Non. 432, 32 sq.: certamen instituit non pertinaciā et studio vincendi, sed, etc., Cic. Ac. 1, 12, 44: desistere pertinaciā, Caes. B. G. 1, 42: pertinaciae finem facere, id. B. C. 3, 10: muliebri pertinacia accendi, Tac. H. 4, 56: pertinaciam alicujus vincere, id. A. 2, 81.—In a good sense, Liv. 42, 62: patientia et pertinacia hostis, Suet. Caes. 68: in evitando inevitabili malo, Sen. Q. N. 4, praef. 12: auctorum pertinacia, steadfast opinion, Plin. 37, 3, 13, § 52.—Personified, the sister of Æther and Dies, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44.
