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V. Human Life; its various Relations and Conditions
23. Business – Leisure – Inactivity – Idleness

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negotium suscipere– to undertake an affair.

negotium obire, exsequi– to execute, manage a business, undertaking.

negotium conficere, expedire, transigere– to arrange, settle a matter.

negotia agere, gerere– to be occupied with business, busy.

multis negotiis implicatum, districtum, distentum, obrutum esse– to be involved in many undertakings; to be much occupied, embarrassed, overwhelmed by business-claims.

negotiis vacare– to be free from business.

occupatum esse in aliqua re– to be engaged upon a matter.

intentum esse alicui rei– to be engaged upon a matter.

negotium alicui facessere (Fam. 3. 10. 1) – to give a person trouble, inconvenience him.

magnum negotium est c. Inf. – it is a great undertaking to…

nullo negotio– without any trouble.

otiosum esse– to be at leisure.

in otio esse or vivere– to be at leisure.

otium habere– to be at leisure.

otio frui– to be at leisure.

otio abundare– to have abundance of leisure.

otium sequi, amplexari– to be a lover of ease, leisure.

otiosum tempus consumere in aliqua re– to spend one's leisure hours on an object.

otio abūti 86 or otium ad suum usum transferre– to use up, make full use of one's spare time.

(in) otio languere et hebescere– to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate.

otio diffluere– to grow slack with inactivity, stagnate.

desidiae et languori se dedere– to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy.

ignaviae 87 et socordiae se dare– to abandon oneself to inactivity and apathy.

per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere– to pass one's life in luxury and idleness.

86

abuti properly = to consume, make full use of. From this is developed the rarer meaning to use in excess, abuse = perverse, intemperanter, immoderate uti. Abuse, misuse = pravus usus, vitium male utentium, insolens mos. abusus is only found in the Jurists, and abusio is a technical term of rhetoric = κατάχρησις.

87

The original meaning of ignavia (in-gnavus, cf. navus, navare) is not cowardice but laziness.

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