socordia: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>sōcordĭa</b>: (o [[short]], Prud. Apoth. 194; cf. [[socors]]; [[sometimes]], on [[account]] of the etymology, written also sēcordĭa), ae, f. [[socors]],<br /><b>I</b> [[dulness]] of [[mind]], i. e.,<br /><b>I</b> Weakmindedness, [[silliness]], [[folly]], [[stupidity]] ([[very]] [[rare]]; syn.: [[insipientia]], [[stoliditas]]): socordiam [[quidam]] pro ignaviā posuerunt (v. II.); [[Cato]] pro stultitiā posuit, Fest. pp. 292 and 293 Müll.: si quem socordiae argueret, stultiorem aiebat filio suo Claudio, Suet. Claud. 3; Tac. A. 4, 35.—<br /><b>II</b> Carelessness, [[negligence]], [[sloth]], [[laziness]], [[indolence]], [[inactivity]] (the [[predominant]] signif. of the [[word]]; used [[only]] in the <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>; cf. Diom. p. 314 P.; perh. [[only]] [[once]] in Cic.; syn.: [[ignavia]], [[desidia]], [[segnities]]): tu ad hoc diei [[tempus]] dormitasti in otio. Quin tu abs te socordiam omnem reicis segnitiem amoves, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 6: [[nisi]] somnum socordiamque ex pectore oculisque amovetis, id. Ps. 1, 2, 11: [[nihil]] loci'st segnitiae [[neque]] socordiae, Ter. And. 1, 3, 1: [[socordia]] [[atque]] [[desidia]], Auct. Her. 2, 23, 35; so ([[with]] [[desidia]]) Sall. C. 4, 1; ([[with]] [[ignavia]]) id. ib. 58, 4; ([[with]] [[incultus]]) id. J. 2, 4; (opp. [[industria]]) Tac. A. 2, 38: nostrā cunctatione et socordiā jam huc [[progressus]], Liv. 22, 14, 5: Cyrenenses tardius iere. Id socordiāne an casu accideret, [[parum]] cognovi, Sall. J. 79, 5: socordiāne an vinolentiā, Tac. A. 12, 67: fortunā per socordiam non uti, Liv. 7, 35: [[nisi]] [[felicitas]] in socordiam vertisset, exuere jugum potuere, Tac. Agr. 31 fin.: caeca ac sopita [[socordia]], Quint. 1, 2, 5: Darei, Curt. 7, 4, 3.