poverty
poverty
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P. and V. πενία, ἡ, ἀ̆πορία, ἡ, P. ἔνδεια, ἡ, ἀχρηματία, ἡ, V. χρημά̆των ἀ̆χηνία, ἡ.
Poverty is a sad thing: V. κακὸν τὸ μὴ ʼχειν (ἔχειν) (Eur. Phoen. 405).
subs.
P. and V. πενία, ἡ, ἀ̆πορία, ἡ, P. ἔνδεια, ἡ, ἀχρηματία, ἡ, V. χρημά̆των ἀ̆χηνία, ἡ.
Poverty is a sad thing: V. κακὸν τὸ μὴ ʼχειν (ἔχειν) (Eur. Phoen. 405).
POVERTY
Want of money or means of subsistence paupertas angustiae rei familiaris difficultas domestica (of those who have barely enough for necessary expenses πενία: ☞ Pauperies is only poetic): tenuitas (of those who have a very small income or fortune): egestas (of those in want of things necessary whether the necessity be natural or acquired): inopia (deep poverty helpless need): mendicitas (the poverty of a beggar beggary πτωχεία). (The words are found in this connection and order.) egestas ac mendicitas. To live in poverty parce ac duriter vitam agere; tenuiter vivere (Ter. Phorm. 1 2 95): to live in great poverty vitam in egestate degere; vitam inopem colere: to fall into poverty [Vid: “To grow POOR”]: to fall into deep poverty ad pudendam inopiam delabi (of a family): to plunge anyone into poverty aliquem ad paupertatem protrahere ad inopiam redigere ad famam rejicere: to plunge one’s self into great poverty se detrudere in mendicitatem: to bear or endure poverty paupertatem perferre; (very great) inopiam tolerare; mendicitatem perpeti: to rise from poverty ex mendicitate emergere.
Poorness want deficiency egestas; inopia. Poverty of intellect or wit animi egestas (Cic. Pis. 11 in.): tenuis et angusta ingenii vena (Quint. 6 2 3): poverty of expression inopia (Cic. Brut. 55 202; where we find paupertas et jejunitas): poverty of words (in conversation) sermonis inopia (Sen. Benef. 2 27 1).
Want of money or means of subsistence paupertas angustiae rei familiaris difficultas domestica (of those who have barely enough for necessary expenses πενία: ☞ Pauperies is only poetic): tenuitas (of those who have a very small income or fortune): egestas (of those in want of things necessary whether the necessity be natural or acquired): inopia (deep poverty helpless need): mendicitas (the poverty of a beggar beggary πτωχεία). (The words are found in this connection and order.) egestas ac mendicitas. To live in poverty parce ac duriter vitam agere; tenuiter vivere (Ter. Phorm. 1 2 95): to live in great poverty vitam in egestate degere; vitam inopem colere: to fall into poverty [Vid: “To grow POOR”]: to fall into deep poverty ad pudendam inopiam delabi (of a family): to plunge anyone into poverty aliquem ad paupertatem protrahere ad inopiam redigere ad famam rejicere: to plunge one’s self into great poverty se detrudere in mendicitatem: to bear or endure poverty paupertatem perferre; (very great) inopiam tolerare; mendicitatem perpeti: to rise from poverty ex mendicitate emergere.
Poorness want deficiency egestas; inopia. Poverty of intellect or wit animi egestas (Cic. Pis. 11 in.): tenuis et angusta ingenii vena (Quint. 6 2 3): poverty of expression inopia (Cic. Brut. 55 202; where we find paupertas et jejunitas): poverty of words (in conversation) sermonis inopia (Sen. Benef. 2 27 1).
poverty:
I. Lit.:
1. paupertas (poor or humble circumstances): p. or rather destitution and beggary, p. vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Par. 6, 1, extr.: also sometimes = egestas: Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31 (quum propter paupertatem sues pasceret) Juv.
2. paupĕries, ēi, f. (poet. for preced.): to bear pinching p., angustam p. pati, Hor. Od. 3, 2, 1: called also, p. importuna, ib. 3, 16, 37; dura, ib. 4, 9, 49 Ter.
3. ĕgestas (indigence): v. supr. (1).
4. ĭnŏpia: v.WANT .
5. (poet.) res angusta domi: Juv. 3, 165.
II. Poorness, inadequacy:
1 ĕgestas: p. of our native tongue, patrii sermonis e., Lucr. 1, 832: p. of soul, e. animi, Cic. in Pis. 11, init. (Better not paupertas in this sense; though Quint. has, p. sermonis, Inst. 8, 3, 33.)
2. ĭnŏpia: Join: inopia et jejunitas (in a speaker): Cic. Br. 55, 202. Or expr. by inops: he complains of the p. of the language, *de lingua queritur ut inopi ac minime locupleti: cf. Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10. See alsoMEAGRENESS .
I. Lit.:
1. paupertas (poor or humble circumstances): p. or rather destitution and beggary, p. vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Par. 6, 1, extr.: also sometimes = egestas: Cic. Div. 1, 17, 31 (quum propter paupertatem sues pasceret) Juv.
2. paupĕries, ēi, f. (poet. for preced.): to bear pinching p., angustam p. pati, Hor. Od. 3, 2, 1: called also, p. importuna, ib. 3, 16, 37; dura, ib. 4, 9, 49 Ter.
3. ĕgestas (indigence): v. supr. (1).
4. ĭnŏpia: v.
5. (poet.) res angusta domi: Juv. 3, 165.
II. Poorness, inadequacy:
1 ĕgestas: p. of our native tongue, patrii sermonis e., Lucr. 1, 832: p. of soul, e. animi, Cic. in Pis. 11, init. (Better not paupertas in this sense; though Quint. has, p. sermonis, Inst. 8, 3, 33.)
2. ĭnŏpia: Join: inopia et jejunitas (in a speaker): Cic. Br. 55, 202. Or expr. by inops: he complains of the p. of the language, *de lingua queritur ut inopi ac minime locupleti: cf. Cic. Fin. 1, 3, 10. See also