egestas
διὰ νήσων τὸν πλόον ἐποιεῦντο → they kept sailing through the islands
Latin > English
egestas egestatis N F :: need, poverty, extreme poverty; lack, want
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ĕgestas: ātis, f. egeo,
I indigence, extreme poverty, necessity, want (very freq. and class.; for syn. cf.: indigentia, inopia, penuria, paupertas, mendicitas): ista paupertas, vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Parad. 6, 1, 45; Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 2; id. Trin. 2, 2, 57; 77; 4, 2, 5 al.; Cic. Rosc. Am. 49 fin.; id. Cat. 2, 11 fin.; id. Inv. 1, 47, 88; * Caes. B. G. 6, 24, 4; Verg. G. 1, 146; 3, 319; id. A. 6, 276 et saep.; cf. in plur.: egestates tot egentissimorum hominum, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5.—Of inanimate things: patrii sermonis, Lucr. 1, 832; 3, 260; cf. linguae, id. 1, 139; and: animi, Cic. Pis. 11. —With an object-genitive, want of something: pabuli, Sall. J. 44, 4; cf. cibi, Tac. A. 6, 23: rei familiaris, Suet. Vit. 7: rationis, want of knowledge, i. e. ignorance, Lucr. 5, 1211.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ĕgestās,⁹ ātis, f. (egeo), pauvreté, indigence : Cic. Par. 45 ; Cat. 2, 25 ; [pl.] Att. 9, 7, 5 || disette, privation : egestate cibi peremptus Tac. Ann. 6, 23, qu’on a fait mourir de faim ; egestas rationis Lucr. 5, 1211, le manque d’explication rationnelle ; egestas animi Cic. Pis. 24, manque de caractère.
Latin > German (Georges)
egestās, ātis, f. (eig. egentas, egeo), I) die Dürftigkeit, bittere Armut (Ggstz. opulentia, copiae), a) eig., verb. egestas ac mendicitas, Cic.: inopia, egestas, patientia, Caes.: eg. civium, Sall. fr. – deduci in egestatem, Sen.: vitam in egestate degere, Cic.: sororis causā egestatem exsequi, Plaut.: egestatem alci obicere, Suet.: egestatem alcis tolerare (fristen), Plaut. – Plur., egestates tot egentissimorum hominum, Cic. ad Att. 9, 7, 5: explere egestates latrocinii sui, Cic. Phil. 14, 10. – b) übtr., animi, Mangel an Charakter, Cic.: linguae (der Sprache), patrii sermonis, Lucr. – II) der Mangel an usw., frumenti, Sall.: cibi, Tac.: pabuli, Fronto: rei familiaris, Vitr.: rationis, Unkunde, Lucr.: appetendi, Apul. apol. 20.
