sadness Copy link Outline 1. tristĭtia (most gen. term)2. moestĭtia (maes- • sadness: 1. tristĭtia (most gen. term): opp. to laetitia, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72: to give oneself up to tears and s., lacrimis ac t. se tradere, Lucc. in Cic. Fam. 5, 14. 2. moestĭtia (maes-: for syn. v. sad): to banish s. (dejection and gloom) from the mind, m. ex animis pellere, Cic. Fin. 1, 13, 43: opp. to hilaritas, risus (the outward demonstration of an opposite state of mind), id. Off. 1, 41, 146. (For dolor, moeror, luctus., v. sorrow, grief.) Phr.: overwhelmed with s., aegritudine afflictus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 16: cf. Virg. Aen. 2, 92, afflictus vitam in tenebris luctuque trahebam.