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|lshtext=<b>dēsĭdĭa</b>: ae, f. [[desideo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[sitting]] [[long]], [[remaining]] in a [[place]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop. ([[rare]]), Prop. 1, 15, 6.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[sitting]] [[idle]], [[idleness]], [[inactivity]], [[slothfulness]] ([[class]].; for syn. cf.: [[inertia]], [[languor]], [[otium]], pax, [[feriae]], justitium, [[dies]] [[fasti]], etc., and v. [[deses]]): in portum confugere non inertiae [[neque]] desidiae, Cic. Brut. 2, 8; so [[with]] [[inertia]], id. Sest. 10, 22; [[with]] [[languor]], id. Off. 1, 34, 123; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78; [[with]] [[socordia]], Sall. C. 4, 1; [[with]] [[segnities]], Suet. Galb. 9 et saep.; opp. [[industria]], Cic. Sest. 48 fin.; opp. agentes, Ov. R. Am. 149 et saep.: corde expelle desidiam tuo, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 24: latrocinia desidiae minuendae [[causa]] fieri, * Caes. B. G. 6, 23, 6: [[horridus]] [[alter]] ([[ductor]] [[apium]]) desidiā, Verg. G. 4, 94: vitanda est improba [[Siren]], Desidia, Hor. S. 2, 3, 15 et saep.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>, Lucr. 5, 48; cf.: [[vobis]] desidiae cordi, Verg. A. 9, 615.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of an [[inanimate]] [[subject]]: [[ager]] [[post]] longam desidiam laetas segetes affert, [[lying]] [[fallow]], Col. 2, 17, 3.<br /><b>dēsīdĭa</b>: ae, f. [[desido]],<br /><b>I</b> a subsiding, [[retiring]] (an Appuleian [[word]]): maris, Ap. de Mundo, p. 73, 28: sanguinis, id. Dogm. Plat. p. 17, 15.