vacuitas
ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
văcŭĭtas: ātis, f. id..
I Lit., concr., empty space, a vacancy, vacuity: interveniorum vacuitates, Vitr. 2, 7.—
II Transf., a being without, a freedom, absence, exemption from any thing (class.; cf. vacatio).
1 With gen.: liberatio et vacuitas omnis molestiae, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: doloris, id. ib. 2, 5, 16; 2, 6, 18; 2, 11, 35; 2, 12, 37: aegritudinis, id. Tusc. 5, 14, 42.—
2 With ab and abl.: vacuitas ab angoribus, Cic. Off. 1, 21, 73.—
B Esp., a vacancy in an office: consulum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 2.
