simultās
Meaning
- dissension, enmity, rivalry, feud, jealousy, grudge
- contest for a prize, strife, competition
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
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Odium · Invidia · Inimicitia · Simultas
1. Odium and invidia denote the feeling of aversion; inimicitia and simultas, the exterior state arising from this feeling. 2. Invidia has a negative character, like disaffection, like δύσνοια, and is a temporary feeling, in opp. to gratia or favor; whereas odium (from ὀδύσασθαι) has a character thoroughly positive, like hatred, μῖσος, and is a deep-rooted feeling, in opp. to amor. Plin. Pan. 68, 7. Hence, invidia is the beginning of odium. Invidia has merely persons; odium, persons and things for its objects. Tac. Ann. ii. 56. Armenii . . . sæpius discordes sunt, adversus Romanos odio, et in Parthum invidia. xiii. 15. Nero intellecta invidia odium intendit. Plin. Pan. 84, 2. Exardescit invidia, cujus finis est odium. 3. Inimicitia denotes any enmity which has its foundation in antipathy or disagreement, like δυσμένεια, ἔχθρα; whereas simultas (ὁμαλότης) denotes a political enmity, which has its foundation in rivalship, like φιλονεικία. Suet. Vesp. 6. Simultas quam ex æmulatione non obscuræ gerebant. (iii. 73.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | simultās | simultātēs |
| genitive | simultātis | simultātum |
| dative | simultātī | simultātibus |
| accusative | simultātem | simultātēs |
| ablative | simultāte | simultātibus |
| vocative | simultās | simultātēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- in simultate cum aliquo sum
- relations are strained between us.
Auct. B. Alex. 49, 2: simultatum, Cic. Fl. 35, 87; Capitol. Ver. 9, 2), f. simul; therefore, orig., a coming together, encounter of two persons or parties; hence, gero, II. A.: huic simultas cum Curione intercedebat, Caes. B. C. 2, 25; cf.: cum quo si simultas tibi non fuisset, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1: sibi privatam simultatem cum Campanis nullam esse, publicas inimicitias esse, Liv. 26, 27, 11; cf.: simultas cum familiā Barcinā, id. 23, 13, 6: se numquam cum sorore fuisse in simultate, Nep. Att. 17, 1: simultate cum Fulviā socru exorta, Suet. Aug. 62: simultatem deponere, Cic. Att. 3, 24, 2; so (opp. gerere) Suet. Vesp. 6: multis simultatem indixerit, id. Ner. 25: dehinc ad simultatem usque processit, id. Tib. 51: ubi nulla simultas Incidit, Ov. R. Am. 661: inter finitimos vetus, Juv. 15, 33.—qui simultates, quas mecum habebat, deposuisset, Cic. Planc. 31, 76: exercere cum aliquo, id. Fl. 35, 88: gerere cum aliquo, Quint. 4, 1, 18: hi (centuriones) de loco summis simultatibus contendebant, Caes. B. G. 5, 44: simultates partim obscuras partim apertas suscepisse, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 24, 71; cf. id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, § 19: simultates graves excipere, deponere, Suet. Caes. 73: simultates exercere ... alienarum simultatium cognitorem fieri, Liv. 39, 5, 2: simultates provocare, Quint. 12, 7, 3: facere, Tac. A. 3, 54: nutrire, id. H. 3, 53: subire pro aliquo, Plin. Ep. 2, 18: simultatibus alicujus dare aliquem, Tac. A. 16, 20: simultates finire, Liv. 40, 8, 9; 40, 46, 9; cf. dirimere, id. 28, 18, 2: paternas obliterare, id. 41, 24, 11: saepe simultates ira morata facit, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 82: nihil est simultatibus gravius, Sen. Ira, 3, 5, 6: erant inter Athenienses et Dorienses simultatium veteres offensae, Just. 2, 6, 16. —cum complures eam peterent in conjugium, simultatem constituit, se ei daturum, qui secum quadrigis certasset victorque exisset, Hyg. Fab. 84; 185: simultatem constituit, id. ib. 22 and 67.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From simul + -tās, thus originally "a coming together", "encounter of two persons or parties". Compare with similitās.