OBSCURITY Copy link • OBSCURITYDarkness, obscuritas; tenebrae (opposed to lux): caligo [Vid: the distinction of the adjective, in OBSCURE]. (The words are found in this connection and order.) obscuritas et tenebrae; tenebrae et caligo; caligo et tenebrae; nox (night). Want of clearness, plainness, obscuritas: incertum (uncertainty). Want of fame or celebrity, tenebrae; ignobilitas, humilitas (the former in respect of rank, the latter in respect of descent): to raise from obscurity, aliquem e tenebris et silentio proferre; aliquem in lucem famamque provehere; e tenebris in lucem evocare (familiam): to live in obscurity, per obscurum vitam transmittere (Sen., Ep., 19, 2); in ignoratione hominum versari; in tenebris jacere; in umbra degere. An obscure thing, res obscura, occulta, involuta, occulta et quasi involuta; res nondum ad liquidum perducta or explorata: to clear up obscurities, res obscuras explanare; res involutas explicare; occulta et quasi involuta aperire.