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Felix is said of felicitas, that is blessedness; or else Felix as bearing strifes and tribulations of this world for everlasting life.
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Petronius, of Nero's time, speaks of the poet's curiosa felicitas, meaning the gift of arriving, by long and careful search, at the inevitable word or phrase.
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The accompanying slogan felicitas saeculi The Fruitfulness of the Age deliberately echoed the message of a similar coin featuring Faustina and her boys.24
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Boethius uses two terms usually translated today as "happiness": beatitudo and felicitas.
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
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Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness."
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
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It's an oxymoron like 'deeply superficial' felicitas
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Perhaps, but there's still no mistaking a wine bar for a brewpub. just look for the Latin words "In vino veritas, in cervisio felicitas" sometimes printed on brewpub menus.
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'Tis Bracteata felicitas, as [3702] Seneca terms it, tinfoiled happiness, infelix felicitas, an unhappy kind of happiness, if it be happiness at all.
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Dubitatur an humana felicitas Deo cognoscendo an amando terminetur.
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Its obscenity outrivals that of the preceding text, and the grammar, style, and curiosa felicitas Petroniana make it an almost perfect imitation.
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