• BURDEN

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• s. onus (general term), sarcina (what a man carries or may carry). To bear a burden, onus ferre, sustinere. To take a burden upon one’s self, onus recipere, suscipere: to lay it down, onus deponere. To be a burden to one, alicui oneri esse, molestum or gravem esse alicui. I will bear the burden of this odium, molem hujus invidiae sustinebo. A ship of burden, navis oneraria. Beast of burden, jumentum onerarium, jumentum; jumentum sarcinarium (e.g., pack-horse).
• A ship of 300 tons burden, navis trecentarum amphorarum. FIG., load, pressure, etc., onus, molestia, incommodum, cura.
• Taxes, onera, munera.
• The burden of the song, versus intercalaris (Servius, Verg., Ecl., 8, 21): FIG., this is ever the burden of his song, eandem canit cantilenam (Ter.).

2. v. onerare, gravare; oneri esse alicui gravem or molestum esse alicui; molestiam alicui afferre, molestia aliquem afficere. The body greatly burdens the mind, corpus praegravat animum. Burdened, oneratus; gravatus; gravis: onustus. To burden one with asking obtundere aliquem rogitando.