Gravitas

[A. Maberry]

FWIW:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Laurence Horn wrote:

> reasonably current sense of gravitas as a character trait in a modern
> politician, statesman, or literary figure--a eulogy for someone named
> Dugald Stewart in the 1858 volume of The Living Age--embeds it in a
> longer Latin phrase:
> *************
> In general company his manner bordered on reserve, but it was the
> _comitate condita gravitas_, and belonged more to the general weight

cf. Cicero. Laelius, sive, De Amicitia 18.66:
"erat in illo viro comitate condita gravitas"

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu