impedimentum (☞ not obstaculum): avocatio a re (to an occupation, to business): mora (delay, cause of delay). To be a hindrance, impedimenti loco esse: to be a hindrance to a person or thing, impedimento esse alicui or alicui rei, ad aliquid (☞ never in aliqua re); impedire aliquem or aliquid, in anything, ab aliqua re, or aliqua re only (☞ never in aliqua re); impedimentum afferre, in or to anything, alicui rei faciendae (of persons and things); obesse alicui and alicui rei (to be against a person or thing; opposed to prodesse) [☞ to HINDER]: it was a great hindrance to the Gauls in battle, that, etc., Gallis magno ad pugnam erat impedimento, quod, etc.: I will be no hindrance, nulla in me or per me est mora; nihil in me est mora: I will be no hindrance to his resigning the decemvirate, non moror, quominus abeat a decemviratu.