amicitia
Short definition (Lewis & Short): friendship (very freq. in Cic., occurring more than 200 times).
Full entry: Lexicon.
171 occurrences of this form in 23 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Letters to Friends
- Annals
- Letters
- The Jugurthine War
- Gallic War
- Letters to Lucilius
- Civil War
- De Officiis
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- Histories
- Letters to Atticus
- Philippics
- De Oratore
- Epigrams
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- Poems
- De Re Publica
- Ars Poetica
- Satires
- Ars Amatoria
- On Tranquility of Mind
- On the Shortness of Life
- Life of Augustus
Example passages
…in hac sententia complectendus erat mihi Caesar, ut vides, in coniuncta et causa et dignitate. hic multum valuit cum vetus amicitia, quam tu non ignoras mihi et Quinto fratri cum Caesare fuisse, tum humanitas eius ac liberalitas brevi tempore et litteris et officiis perspecta nobis et cognita. vehementer etiam res ipsa publica……
……finem curatius disseram, quia tum primum reperta sunt quae per tot annos rem publicam exedere. Firmius Catus senator, ex intima Libonis amicitia, iuvenem inprovi- dum et facilem inanibus ad Chaldaeorum promissa, magorum sacra, somniorum etiam interpretes impulit, dum proavum Pompeium, amitam Scriboniam, quae quondam Augusti coniunx fuerat,……
…Pulchrum et magna laude dignum amicitia principis in hoc uti, quantumque gratia valcas, aliorum honoribus experiri.…