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|lshtext=<b>pĕtŭlantĭa</b>: ae, f. [[petulans]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit., [[sauciness]], freakishness, [[impudence]], [[wantonness]], [[petulance]] ([[class]].; syn. [[lascivia]]): [[itaque]] a petendo [[petulantia]], a procando, id est poscendo, [[procacitas]] nominata est, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 23, 18: [[petulantia]] et [[libido]] [[magis]] est adulescentium [[quam]] senum, id. Sen. 11, 36: [[petulantia]] et [[audacia]], id. Caecin. 35, 103; cf.: te non ulla meae laesit [[petulantia]] linguae, Prop. 1, 16, 37.—In plur.: [[Naevius]] ... cum ob assiduam maledicentiam et probra in principes civitatis ... in vincula conjectus esset ... in his [[fabulis]], delicta sua et petulantias dictorum, quibus multos [[ante]] laeserat, diluisset, [[insolent]] [[language]], libels, Gell. 3, 3, 15.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In a milder [[sense]], [[carelessness]], [[heedlessness]] ([[ante]]-[[class]].): linguae, Suet. Tib. 61; Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of animals, [[viciousness]]: cornuti [[fere]] perniciosi sunt [[propter]] petulantiam, Col. 7, 6, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of things, [[exuberance]], [[luxuriance]]: ramorum, Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 124: morbi, [[violence]], Gell. 12, 5, 9.