providentia

Latin term · 33 occurrences · 9 works

Short definition (Lewis & Short): Foresight, foreknowledge.

Full entry: Lexicon.

33 occurrences of this form in 9 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).

Works using this form

The Golden Ass
Apuleius · 13 occurrences
Letters to Lucilius
Seneca · 9 occurrences
Letters
Pliny the Younger · 3 occurrences
History of Rome (Books 1–10)
Livy · 2 occurrences
Histories
Tacitus · 2 occurrences
Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
Cicero · 1 occurrences
De Re Publica
Cicero · 1 occurrences
The Jugurthine War
Sallust · 1 occurrences
On the Happy Life
Seneca · 1 occurrences

Example passages

……conscientia tanti facinoris merito permotus statim profugit et in domum quandam praesidio tenebrarum elapsus perpetem noctem delituit; sed providentia deum, quae nihil impunitum nocentibus permittit, priusquam iste clandestinis itineribus elaberetur, mane praestolatus ad gravissimum iudicii vestri sacramentum eum curavi perducere. Habetis itaque……

Apuleius — The Golden Ass · Read in context

……solliciti. Maxima autem utriusque causa est, quod non ad praesentia aptamur, sed cogitationes in longinqua praemittimus. Itaque providentia, maximum bonum condicionis humanae, in malum versa est.…

Seneca — Letters to Lucilius · Read in context

……senatus sententiae loco postulavit, ut consules desiderium universorum notum principi facerent, peterentque sicut aliis vitiis huic quoque providentia sua occurreret.…

Pliny the Younger — Letters · Read in context

Subjects

Providence & fate

Related terms in Greek (same subject)

εἱμαρμένη (heimarmene) — Providence & fate
πρόνοια (pronoia) — Providence & fate

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