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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• distress (subs.):
    1. I. Suffering, affliction:
      1. 1. aerumna (defined by Cic. as, aegritudo laboriosa, i. e. suffering accompanied with trouble or affliction): what d. you have released me from, me ex quanta aerumna extraxeris, Ter.
      2. 2. mĭsĕria (often pl.): Cic.: v. affliction, misery.
      3. 3. dŏlor, ōris (gen. term for suffering, of mind or body): v. grief, pain.
      4. 4. mŏlestia (esp. in pl.): to relieve a person's d. (by reasoning with him), aliquem a molestiis abducere, Cic.: to recover from d. and anxiety, molestias et sollicitudines deponere, Cic.: v. vexation.
      5. 5. angustiae: v. straits, difficulty.
      6. 6. angor, ōris (acute, grief or suffering): Cic.: Suet. Phr.: to succour (troops) in d., laborantibus succurrere, Caes.: (v. to suffer): a cry of d., querela, ejulatio, vox miserabilis (v. lamentation); quiritatio and quiritatus: v. cry (IV. 5).
    2. II. Straitened circumstances:
      1. 1. angustiae, ārum: brought into circumstances of great d., in summas a. adductus, Cic.: also in sing., Tac.: v. difficulty, straits.
      2. 2. ĕgestas: v. destitution
      3. 3. ĭnŏpia: v. want.
    3. III. Seizure of goods: v. distraint.
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• distress (v.):
      1. 1. ango, xi, 3 (keenly to annoy and render anxious): to be d.'d, angi animo, Cic.; angi animi, Pl. Join: angere et sollicitum habere aliquem; angere atque sollicitare, Cic.
      2. 2. sollĭcĭto, 1 (to render anxious): Cic. (v. supr.).
      3. 3. afflicto, 1 chiefly with pron. refl, or as pass.): to d. oneself (greatly), sese af., Sall.: Cic.: to be very greatly d.'d, acerbissime afflictari, Cic.
      4. 4. crŭcio, 1 (strictly, to torture: q. v.): Cic. See also foll. art.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• DISTRESS
1.
  • Calamity; Vid: CALAMITY or AFFLICTION. To be in distress, in miseria esse or versari; in summa infelicitate versari; iniquissima fortuna uti; in angustias adduci: in the greatest distress, in summas angustias adduci: to relieve anybody’s distress, aliquem a miseria vindicare; ex miseriis eripere: I do not know how to get out of my distress, nescio quomodo me expediam ex re: to be in distress about anybody or anything, laborare de aliquo or de aliqua re (also laborare absolutely, to be anxiously concerned about anybody or anything): to be in distress for anything, laborare ab aliqua re (e.g., for corn, water, etc.): my only distress is for you, nihil laboro, nisi ut tu salvus sis: in the distress of the country, difficili rei publicae tempore: general distress, publica clades or clades atque calamitas.
  • Pecuniary distress. [Vid: POVERTY.] To be in distress, in angustiis esse; angustius se habere; ad inopiam redactum esse: in great distress, in summa mendicitate esse; mendicitatem perpeti: not to let anybody suffer distress, victum alicui suppeditare; dare alicui, unde utatur: to relieve anybody’s distress, or anybody that is in distress, alicujus inopiae opitulari (as to poverty).
  • Danger, Vid: To be in distress, laborare: a signal of distress, *periculi signum: to give a signal of distress, *aliqua re periculi significationem facere.
  • Law term; [Vid: DISTRAINT].
  • The thing seized, pignus (general term, the pledge, in general).
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  • v. To make miserable [Vid: To AFFLICT.]
  • To Distrain, Vid:
  • To BE DISTRESSED, laborare (to be in distressing or difficult circumstances; especially as military technical term: to be distress for corn, laborare ab re frumentaria: ships are distressed, triremes laborant, Caes.: our men are distressed, nostri laborant): aliquid me valde conturbat; aliquid me sollicitat, or sollicitum habet, or anxium ac sollicitum habet; sollicitus sum et angor; anxio animo et sollicito sum; angi or animo angi; se afflictare or affctari: about anything, anxie ferre aliquid: to be distress (as to circumstances, etc.), [Vid: “To be in DISTRESS”]: I am much distressed about your health, incredibili sum sollicitudine de tua valetudine; invaletudo (al. valetudo) tua me valde conturbat: to make anybody quite distressed, non mediocri cura pellere alicujus animum: distressed circumstances, res familiaris affecta, perturbata: to be distressed for money, de pecunia, laborare; in summa diffcultate numaria esse.
  • Distressed, sollicitus; aegritudine affectus; aeger animo or animi. [Vid: MISERABLE.] Don’t be distressed, ne sis perturbatus.