wretchedness Copy link Outline 1. mĭsĕria2. aerumna3. ĕgestas (bitter poverty) • wretchedness: 1. mĭsĕria: where virtue is, there w. and utter misery cannot be, ubi virtus est, ibi esse miseria et aerumna non potest, Cic. Fin. 5, 32, 95: the w. (poverty) of the commons increased every day, indies miseriae plebis crescebant, Liv. 6, 34. 2. aerumna: w. is distressful sorrow, aerumna est aegritudo laboriosa, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 18. 3. ĕgestas (bitter poverty): poverty or rather w. and beggary, paupertas vel potius egestas ac mendicitas, Cic. Parad. 6, 1, 45: v. misery.