ostentatio: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>ostentātĭo</b>: ōnis, f. id..<br /><b>I</b> In gen., a showing, [[exhibition]], [[display]] ([[very]] [[rare]]). in armorum [[magis]] [[quam]] togarum ostentatione, Plin. [[Pan]]. 56 fin.: [[cognomen]] Imperiosi ... ab ostentatione saevitiae ascitum, from an [[open]] [[display]], Liv. 7, 4.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> An [[idle]] [[show]], [[vain]] [[display]], [[pomp]], [[parade]], [[ostentation]] (the predom. signif. of the [[word]]): vitanda [[etiam]] ingenii ostentationis [[suspicio]], Cic. de Or. 2, 82, 333: magnifica et gloriosa, id. Fl. 22, 52: [[insolens]], id. Par. 6, 1, 42: et [[gloria]], id. Rab. Post. 14, 38: [[inanis]] et [[simulatio]], id. Off. 2, 12, 43: et [[venditatio]], id. Lael. 23, 86: sui, Caes. B. C. 1, 4.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: multorum annorum ostentationes meas [[nunc]] in [[discrimen]] esse adductas, [[that]] my [[many]] years' [[boastful]] promises (of an [[able]] [[administration]]) are [[now]] brought to the [[test]], Cic. Att. 5, 13, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A false, [[deceitful]] [[show]], [[pretence]], simulation, [[deception]]: [[consul]] veritate, non ostentatione [[popularis]], Cic. Agr. 1, 7, 23; cf.: ut in fronte [[ostentatio]] [[sit]], [[intus]] [[veritas]] occultetur, id. Fin. 2, 24, 77: doloris, [[feigned]] [[pain]], Sen. Ep. 99, 15: (captivi) producti ostentationis causā, Caes. B. C. 3, 71 fin.: qui latius ostentationis causā vagarentur, id. B. G. 7, 45.