indigence Copy link Outline 1. ĕgestas (esp. as the result of profligacy)2. ĭnŏpia • indigence: 1. ĕgestas (esp. as the result of profligacy): poverty, or rather i., and beggary, paupertas vel potius e. ac mendicitas, Cic. Par. 6, 1, extr.: to be reduced to extreme i., in summam e. deduci, Ulp. Dig. 25, 3, 5, § 17: Tac. 2. ĭnŏpia: v. destitution. See also poverty. (N.B.--Not indigentia: v. need.)