Otium cum dignitate, currently used mainly in the sense of "enjoying the retirement", is a Latin expression.
In the early Roman Republic, the otium, the rest was a pejorative, a negative understanding. It was rejected because every Roman, especially a patriarch, was deemed to work and deploy himself for the Roman state. The opposite was the term "negotium" which meant "acting" in a broader sense than doing business.
Under the influence of changing thinking about things like retired life, introspects and pauperas by the epicurists, it was once so negatively charged "otium" a Latin synonym for the Greek term "ataraxia".
Thus, in the first century BC, the term "Otium cum dignitate" meant "rest without loss of dignity."
Political influence or "auctoritas", as long as the retrenchment of the work remained in Roman Antiquity, was linked to the maintenance of clients, moral authority or dignitas and family relationships.
The term is usually used in academic circles, especially for a professor's emergence.
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