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Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
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Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
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  - Claritas, pen. cor. claritâtis.
    Clearenesse: brightnesse: nobilltie: honour: famousuesse. Claritas solis. Plin. Claritas oculorum. Plin. Claritas visus. Plin. Claritas vocis Cic Clearenesse of voyce. Claritis. Cic Excelientie: famousuesse. Claritas & amplirudo. Cic Honour and noblenesse. Esle in claritate. Cic To be of great name. Excellere claritate nascendi Quint. To excell in noblenesse of birth. Personarum claritate insignis Plin. iun.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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  - clārĭtas, ātis, f. [clarus], clearness, brightness, splendor (in good prose, most freq. in the post-Aug. per.).
    I. Prop.
    A. Of objects affecting the sight (so for the most part only in Pliny the elder): sidus Veneris claritatis tantae (est), ut, etc., Plin. 2, 8, 6, 37; cf. id. 2, 8, 6, 30; 23, 4, 41, 84: matutina, id. 9, 35, 54, 107: visus, id. 31, 10, 46, 116; cf. oculorum, id. 18, 11, 29, 114; 20, 10, 42, 108: AD CLARITATEM (sc. oculorum), for clearness of sight (label of an ointment box), Inscr. Orell. 4234.—
    B. Of objects affecting the hearing, distinctness, clearness: claritas in voce, Cic. Ac. 1, 5, 19: sonituum chordarum, Vitr. 5, 3, 8: vocis, Quint. 6, prooem. 11: vocalium, id. 9, 4, 131; 11, 3, 41.—
    II. Trop.
    A. Intellectually, clearness, distinctness, perspicuity (rare): pulchritudinem rerum claritas orationis illuminat, Quint. 2, 16, 10; so id. 8, 3, 70; Cod. Th. 1, 1, 6, 1.—
    B. Morally, celebrity, renown, reputation, splendor, high estimation (so most freq.; several times in Cicero, who never uses claritudo, while in Sallust only claritudo is found, q. v.; cf. also amplitudo, splendor, nobilitas, gloria): num te fortunae tuae, num amplitudinis, num claritatis, num gloriae poenitebat? Cic. Phil. 1, 13, 38, id. Div. 2, 31, 66: quae ex multis pro tuā claritate audiam, id. Fam. 13, 68, 1, cf. Quint. 3, 7, 11: viri claritate praestantes, Nep. Eum. 3, 3: nominis, Auct. B. Afr. 22: generis, Quint. 8, 6, 7; cf. id. 5, 11, 5; 3, 7, 11: natalium, Tac. H. 1, 49: personarum, Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 1: Herculis, Tac. G. 34 fin.: vino Maroneo antiquissima claritas, Plin. 14, 4, 6, 53: litterarum, id. 14, 4, 5, 44: herbarum (i.e. nobiliores herbae), id. 24, 19, 120, 188.—In plur.: claritates operum, Plin. 35, 8, 34, 53: ingeniorum, id. 37, 13, 77, 201.
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