misery Copy link Outline 1. mĭsĕria (gen. term2. aerumna (a depressing, overwhelming affliction)3. angor (distressing grief, anguish) • misery: 1. mĭsĕria (gen. term: distressed and suffering condition): to be in m., in m. esse, Cic. Fin. 2, 14, extr.: to be a burden and a m. (= source of m.) to any one, oneri miseriaeque esse, Sall. Cat. 10: oft. pl., with reference to various sources of m.: the m.s in which we have lived for so many years, m. in quibus tot annos versamur, Cic. Fam. 7, 3, init. Join: miseria et aerumna, luctus atque miseriae, Sall.: Cic. 2. aerumna (a depressing, overwhelming affliction): esp. in pl. (cf. L. G. § 591): death a respite from m., mors requies aerumnarum, Sall. Cat. 51, med.: Cic. Fin. 5, 32, 95 (miseria atque aerumna). 3. angor (distressing grief, anguish): to wear a person out with m., aliquem angoribus conficere, id. Ph. 2, 15, 37.