means extravagance, profusion, waste, or excessive liberality, and is the opposite extreme to the vice of parsimony. By the Roman law, if a man by notorious prodigality was in danger of wasting his estate, he was looked upon as non compos, and committed to the care of curators, or tutors, by the praetor. And by the laws of Solon, such prodigals were branded with perpetual infamy.