austeritas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →austeritas, austeritatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
harshness, sourness, bitterness; gloominess, somberness; severity, rigor;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...secum reluctantem avocabit ipsa rerum, quas tractabit, austeritas; haec, quae remissa fronte commentanda sunt, non feret, nisi..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...existimet. Ipse nec habeat uitia nec ferat. Non austeritas eius tristis, non dissoluta sit comitas, ne inde odium..."