1. s. malum (general term): incommodum (unpleasant occurrence, state, etc.). To be an evil, in malis esse: to look upon anything as an evil, aliquid in malis habere, ponere or ducere: to increase an evil, malum augere (to increase an evil one is already suffering); malum malo addere (to add a new evil to one already existing): you would but increase the evil, in ulcere tamquam unguis exsisteres (Prov., Cic., Dom., 5, 12): one evil follows another, vara vibiam sequitur (Prov., Auson., Praef. ad Monosyll., after 17 Idyll.): no evil happened to him, nihil mali accidit ei; so incommodum accidit (Cic.): to speak evil of anybody, male loqui alicui (Terentianus, Phorm., 2, 3, 25); maledicere alicui; maledlce contumelioseque dicere de aliquo (Cic.); maledice et maligne loqui (Liv., 45, 39, 5): to wish anybody evil, male velle alicui (Plaut., Asin., 5, 1, 13). May evil overtake Antonius! Liv. Antonio male sit! To be plotting evil (against anybody), male cogitare (de aliquo; Cic., Sen., 6): you are a messenger of evil, male narras (Cic.); acerbum nuncium perferre (alicui, Cic.): to ward off, lessen, avoid an evil, incommodum rejicere, deminuere, devitare (Cic., Invent., 2, 5, 18): to remedy an evil one has suffered, incommodum acceptum sarcire (aliqua re): there are so many evils in life, that, etc., ita multa sunt incommoda in vita, ut etc.: they not only suffered no evil, but, etc., non modo incommodi nihil ceperunt, sed etiam etc.