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|lshtext=<b>lăbōrĭōsus</b>: a, um, adj. 2. [[labor]],<br /><b>I</b> [[full]] of [[labor]], [[laborious]].<br /><b>I</b> Attended [[with]] [[much]] [[labor]], [[laborious]], [[toilsome]], [[wearisome]], [[difficult]], [[troublesome]] (syn. [[operosus]]): [[deambulatio]], Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3: [[nihil]] laboriosius, Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19: operum [[longe]] maximum ac laboriosissimum, Liv. 5, 19 fin.: si [[qua]] laboriosa est ([[fabula]]), ad me curritur, [[difficult]] to [[put]] on the [[stage]], opp. [[lenis]], Ter. Heaut. prol. 44.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Inclined to [[labor]], [[laborious]], [[industrious]], for the Gr. [[φιλόπονος]] (syn.: [[impiger]], [[industrius]]): homines, Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35: bos laboriosissimus hominis [[socius]] in [[agricultura]], Col. 6 praef. § 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> That undergoes [[much]] [[trouble]] and [[hardship]], [[troubled]], harassed: [[quid]] [[enim]] nobis duobus laboriosius? Cic. Mil. 2, 5; id. Phil. 11, 4, 4.—Hence, adv.: lăbōrĭōsē, [[laboriously]], wearisomely, [[with]] [[difficulty]], Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 9; Cels. 5, 17, 2; Cat. 38, 1.—Comp., Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31.—Sup.: laboriosissime, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 71; Suet. Caes. 43 al.
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