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|lshtext=<b>frūgālĭtas</b>: tātis, f. [[frugalis]], II.,<br /><b>I</b> [[economy]], [[temperance]], thriftiness, [[frugality]]; and in gen., [[worth]], [[virtue]] (the Gr. [[σωφροσύνη]]>; [[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Prop.: omnes in [[illo]] sunt rege virtutes, sed [[praecipue]] [[singularis]] et admiranda [[frugalitas]] ... ego frugalitatem, id est modestiam et temperantiam, virtutem maximam judico, Cic. Deiot. 9, 26: vitae [[genus]] cum luxu aut cum frugalitate, Cels. praef. med.; cf.: ex contrariis: [[frugalitas]] [[bonum]], [[luxuria]] [[enim]] [[malum]], Quint. 5, 10, 73: [[quod]] cessat ex reditu, frugalitate suppletur, Plin. Ep. 2, 4, 3: bona [[valetudo]], quaeque eam [[maxime]] [[praestat]] [[frugalitas]], Quint. 10, 3, 26; 11, 3, 19; 12, 1, 8; Petr. 115: [[frugalitas]] [[autem]] [[paupertas]] voluntaria est, Sen. Ep. 17, 5: luxurioso [[frugalitas]] [[poena]] est, id. ib. 71, 23; id. Tranq. An. 1, 9.—Of [[speech]]: quadam eloquentiae frugalitate contentos, [[measure]], Quint. 12, 10, 21.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., in concr. for [[fruges]], fruits of the [[earth]], App. M. 9, p. 233, 29.—<br /><b>II</b> In a gen. [[sense]], [[worth]], [[virtue]]: [[temperans]], quem [[Graeci]] σώφρονα appellant, eamque virtutem σωφροσύνην vocant, [[quam]] [[soleo]] [[equidem]] tum temperantiam, tum moderationem appellare, [[nonnumquam]] [[etiam]] modestiam: sed [[haud]] [[scio]] an recte ea [[virtus]] [[frugalitas]] appellari possit, etc. ... reliquas [[etiam]] virtutes [[frugalitas]] continet, etc., Cic. Tusc. 3, 8, 16 sq.; cf. id. ib. 4, 16, 36; Quint. 1, 6, 17; 29.