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|lshtext=<b>clārĭtas</b>: ātis, f. [[clarus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[clearness]], [[brightness]], [[splendor]] (in [[good]] [[prose]], [[most]] freq. in the [[post]]-Aug. per.).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of objects affecting the [[sight]] (so for the [[most]] [[part]] [[only]] in Pliny the [[elder]]): [[sidus]] Veneris claritatis tantae (est), ut, etc., Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 37; cf. id. 2, 8, 6, § 30; 23, 4, 41, § 84: matutina, id. 9, 35, 54, § 107: [[visus]], id. 31, 10, 46, § 116; cf. oculorum, id. 18, 11, 29, § 114; 20, 10, 42, § 108: AD CLARITATEM (sc. oculorum), for [[clearness]] of [[sight]] ([[label]] of an [[ointment]] [[box]]), Inscr. Orell. 4234.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of objects affecting the [[hearing]], [[distinctness]], [[clearness]]: [[claritas]] in voce, Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19: sonituum chordarum, Vitr. 5, 3, 8: vocis, Quint. 6, prooem. § 11: vocalium, id. 9, 4, 131; 11, 3, 41.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Intellectually, [[clearness]], [[distinctness]], [[perspicuity]] ([[rare]]): pulchritudinem rerum [[claritas]] orationis illuminat, Quint. 2, 16, 10; so id. 8, 3, 70; Cod. Th. 1, 1, 6, § 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Morally, [[celebrity]], [[renown]], [[reputation]], [[splendor]], [[high]] [[estimation]] (so [[most]] freq.; [[several]] times in [[Cicero]], [[who]] [[never]] uses [[claritudo]], [[while]] in [[Sallust]] [[only]] [[claritudo]] is [[found]], q. v.; cf. also [[amplitudo]], [[splendor]], [[nobilitas]], [[gloria]]): num te fortunae tuae, num amplitudinis, num claritatis, num gloriae poenitebat? Cic. Phil. 1, 13, 38, id. Div. 2, 31, 66: quae ex multis pro tuā claritate audiam, id. Fam. 13, 68, 1, cf. Quint. 3, 7, 11: viri claritate praestantes, Nep. Eum. 3, 3: nominis, Auct. B. Afr. 22: generis, Quint. 8, 6, 7; cf. id. 5, 11, 5; 3, 7, 11: natalium, Tac. H. 1, 49: personarum, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 1: Herculis, Tac. G. 34 fin.: vino Maroneo antiquissima [[claritas]], Plin. 14, 4, 6, § 53: litterarum, id. 14, 4, 5, § 44: herbarum (i.e. nobiliores herbae), id. 24, 19, 120, § 188.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: claritates operum, Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 53: ingeniorum, id. 37, 13, 77, § 201.