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|lshtext=<b>ĭnops</b>: ŏpis, adj. 2. in-opis,<br /><b>I</b> [[without]] [[resources]], [[helpless]], [[weak]] ([[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: ab [[ope]] [[inops]], qui ejus indiget, Varr. L. L. 5, § 92 Müll.: inopes relicti a duce, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34: [[nihil]] cum potentiore juris humani relinquitur inopi, Liv. 9, 1, 8: solare inopem et succurre relictae, Verg. A. 9, 290.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ab: sic inopes et ab amicis, et ab existimatione sunt, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 2. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With inf.: inopes laudis conscendere [[carmen]], [[unable]], Prop. 2, 10, 23 (3, 1, 23 Müll.).—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., [[helpless]] [[through]] [[poverty]], [[destitute]], [[needy]], [[indigent]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: res pauperes inopesque, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 24: aerarium [[inops]] et exhaustum, [[empty]], Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 70, § 164: te [[semper]] [[inops]] vexet [[cupido]], unsated, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 98: [[domus]] cujusvis inopis, Nep. Ages. 7, 4. —Esp., of the [[dead]] [[who]] could not [[pay]] [[Charon]]'s [[fee]]: haec [[omnis]] [[inops]] inhumataque [[turba]] est, Verg. A. 6, 325; cf.: infletaeque jacent inopes [[super]] arva catervae, Aus. Mos. 4: mortuis in [[ore]] nummum immittere, ut [[apud]] inferos non [[tamquam]] inopes errent, Schol. Juv. 3, 267. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen., [[destitute]] of, [[without]]: humanitatis, Cic. de Or. 2, 10, 40: amicorum, id. Lael. 15: animi, Verg. A. 4, 300: mentis, Ov. F. 4, 457: consilii, Liv. 26, 18, 6: rationis, Stat. Th. 1, 373: [[senatus]] auxilii humani, Liv. 3, 7, 7: [[terra]] pacis, Ov. P. 2, 2, 96: somni cibique, id. M. 14, 424: provinciae virorum, Tac. H. 2, 67: [[miles]] Martis, [[that]] [[never]] fights, Sil. 9, 334.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur. as subst.: ĭnŏpes, um, opp. potentes, Sall. H. Fragm. 4, 61, 17 Dietsch.— Sing.: si [[nihil]] cum potentiore juris humani relinquitur inopi, Liv. 9, 1, 8. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[inanimate]] things, [[mean]], [[wretched]], [[contemptible]]: inopis et pusilli animi esse, Hor. S. 1, 4, 17: [[nostras]] inopes noluit esse vias, Ov. Ib. 24: advorsus [[atque]] [[inops]] [[amor]], Lucr. 4, 1142: odia aegra [[sine]] armis errabant, iraeque inopes, [[impotent]], Val. Fl. 5, 147: [[vita]], Vell. 2, 19, 4. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[speech]], [[poor]] in words or ideas, [[meagre]]: non erat [[abundans]], non [[inops]] [[tamen]], Cic. Brut. 67, 238: non [[inops]] verbis, id. ib. 70, 247: ad ornandum, id. ib. 76, 263: Latinam linguam non [[modo]] non inopem, sed locupletiorem [[etiam]] esse [[quam]] Graecam, id. Fin. 1, 3, 10: vir inopi [[lingua]] et [[infacundus]], Gell. 18, 8, 6.
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