insumo
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
in-sūmo: mpsi, mptum, 3, v. a.,
I to take for any thing; hence to apply to, expend upon.
I Lit.
(a) In aliquid: ut nullus teruncius insumatur in quemquam, Cic. Att. 5, 17, 2: sumptum in aliquam rem, id. Inv. 2, 38, 113: sestertios tricenos in cenam, Gell. 2, 24, 11.—
(b) With dat.: paucos dies reficiendae classi, Tac. A. 2, 53.—
(g) With abl.: non est melius quo insumere possis, Hor. S. 2, 2, 102.—
II Trop.
A To apply, employ, bestow: operam frustra, Liv. 10, 18: operam libellis accusatorum, Tac. A. 3, 44: vitam versibus, id. Or. 9.—
(b) With in and abl.: nec in evolvenda antiquitate satis operae insumitur, Tac. Or. 29. —
(g) With ad: omnis cura ad speculandum hoc malum insumitur, Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 153.—
B To take to one's self, to take, assume: interficiendi domini animum, Tac. A. 14, 44: medium latus, Stat. Th. 2, 39: dignas insumite mentes Coeptibus, id. ib. 12, 643.—
C To use up, exhaust, weaken: corpus, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 2, 60: corporis virtutem, id. Acut. 2, 37, 213.
