DESTITUTE Copy link • DESTITUTEWith the object expressed, destitutus aliqua re (less commonly ab aliqua re; e.g., amicis; praeceptis; scientia juris; but spe [Curt.] or a spe [Liv.]; a re familiari): derelictus aliqua re (e.g., non modo fortuna, verum etiam spe): nudus: nudatus: privatus; spoliatus aliqua re: to be destitute of troops, nudum esse ab exercitu (of a country): to be destitute of everything, omnibus rebus nudatum esse; omnium rerum esse inopem. ABSOL., inops, also with auxilii (who has no power to help himself): auxilio orbatus or destitutus: omnium rerum inops: omnibus rebus orbatus (utterly destitute): omnibus fortunis spoliatus (Cic.): egenus omnium (Liv.; rare, not pre-Augustan): egens: egentissimus: mendicus (miserably poor): to be destitute (= miserably poor), in summa egestate or mendicitate esse; in summa mendicitate vivere; vitam in mendicitate degere: anybody is utterly destitute, nihil aliquo egentius: a destitute condition, inopia.