astutia: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>astūtĭa</b>: ae, f. [[astutus]],<br /><b>I</b> the [[quality]] of [[being]] [[astutus]], orig. ([[like]] [[acumen]], [[dolus]], etc.) [[dexterity]], [[adroitness]], and also (eccl. Lat.) [[understanding]], [[wisdom]]: Quibus (feris) abest ad praecavendum intellegendi [[astutia]], Pac. ap. Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31 (Trag. Rel. p. 122 Rib.): ut detur parvulis [[astutia]], Vulg. Prov. 1, 4: intellegite, parvuli, astutiam, ib. ib. 8, 5.—But [[very]] [[early]] used in a [[bad]] [[sense]], [[cunning]], [[slyness]], [[subtlety]], [[craft]] as a [[habit]] ([[most]] freq. in [[ante]]-[[class]]. and Ciceron. Lat.; [[afterwards]] supplanted by [[astus]], q. v.): est nobis [[spes]] in hac astutiā, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 53: nec copiast [Me expediundi], [[nisi]] si astutiam [[aliquam]] corde [[machinor]], id. ib. 3, 3, 15 Fleck.; 3, 4, 7; id. Ep. 3, 2, 27; id. Mil. 2, 2, 82: [[nunc]] [[opus]] est tuā Mihi ad hanc rem expromptā malitiā [[atque]] astutiā, Ter. And. 4, 3, 8; id. Heaut. 4, 3, 32: [[quod]] si aut [[confidens]] [[astutia]] aut callida esset [[audacia]], vix ullo obsisti [[modo]] posset, Cic. Clu. 65, 183: quae [[tamen]] non astutiā quādam, sed aliquā [[potius]] sapientiā secutus [[sum]], id. Fam. 3, 10, 9: qui (Deus) adprehendit sapientes in astutiā eorum, Vulg. Job, 5, 13; ib. 1 Cor. 3, 19; ib. Ephes. 4, 14.—Also plur.: in regionem astutiarum mearum te [[induco]], Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 78; so id. Ep. 3, 2, 39: Hem astutias, Ter. And. 3, 4, 25 [[Don]].: [[aliter]] leges, [[aliter]] philosophi tollunt astutias, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68; 3, 17, 61.