ANXIOUS Copy link • ANXIOUSanxius: sollicitus (anxius, especially from present causes; sollicitus, from apprehension of future evils): pavidus: trepidus or trepidans [SYN. under ANXIETY]. To be anxious about anything, anxium esse re or de re, seldom with accusative or genitive, sollicitum esse de re: about anybody, pro aliquo laborare. [Vid: more under ANXIETY] Causing anxiety, anxius (not in Cic. in this meaning, but in Liv.): anxious cares, anxiae curae: an anxious fear, timor anxius (Verg.). To make anybody anxious, aliquem sollicitare, sollicitum habere. (The words are found in this connection and order), anxium ac sollicitum habere: affictare; sollicitudine or aegritudine afficere; sollicitudinem or segritudinem alicui afferre: to make very anxious, vehementer angere; vexare; urere; cruciare: discruciare: miseris modis sollicitare.