Significatio vocis titillatio | Babel Free

Definitiones

tickling, titillation

declension-3

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“At hās leviōris dūcis voluptātēs, quibus quasi “tītillātiō” (Epicūrī enim hoc verbum est) adhibētur sēnsibus.”

But these you consider to be the more trivial pleasures, in which a sort of “tickling” (for this is Epicurus’s own word) is applied to the senses. (First use in Latin: Cicero added the suffix -tio to the verb titillo to interpret the Epicurean concept of “kinetic” or “moving” pleasures that “tickle” the senses.)

“At nōn est voluptātum tanta quasi “tītillātiō” in senibus.”

But, [as they say], there is not such a “tickling” of the pleasures, so to speak, among the elderly. (Cicero re-uses his neologism in De Senectute to explain how older people are fortunate to minimize their pursuits of such ephemeral pleasures.)

“c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor⟳, Epistulae 92.6”

“c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Epistulae 52.3”

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