LUST Copy link • LUST 1. s. libido (sensual inclination; especially in plur., libidines, lusts): cupiditas; cupido (desire in a good sense; then also in a bad sense: ☞ cupido only in poets and historians; not used by Cic.): aviditas (greedy desire): studium (eager desire of obtaining). (The words are found in this connection and order.) studium cupiditasque: appetitus; appetitio; appetentia (instinctive longing for anything): desiderium (longing that feels a void till it is satisfied; often the desire of what one has been deprived of): (cupiditatis) ardor; impetus; sitis; indomita atque effrenata cupiditas; cupiditas insatiabilis. The lusts of the flesh, cupiditates; libidines (as lustful desires): (corporis) voluptates (sensual indulgences): to be the slave of lust, libidinibus se dare, dedere; voluptationibus servire: se tradere; totum se libidinibus or corporis voluptatibus dedere: to bridle one’s lusts, cupiditatibus imperare; cupiditates coercere libidines domitas habere: the lust of gain, lucri or quaestus studium; avaritia: lust of honor, studium laudis; studium cupiditasque honorum. 2. v. after anything, appetentem, cupidum, avidum, studiosum esse alicujus rei; concupiscere aliquid; appetere aliquid; alicujus rei studio teneri; alicujus rei studio or cupiditate ardere, flagrare.