inaccessible Copy link Outline I. Of places1. ĭnaccessus2. invius (where there is no pathway)3. expr. by verbII. Of persons; difficult of access • inaccessible: I. Of places: 1. ĭnaccessus: Tac. Ger. 1: Plin. 2. invius (where there is no pathway): a nation i. by reason of surrounding rivers, gens circumfusis inv. fluminibus, Ov. Met. 5, 582: Plin. Fig.: nought is i. to valour, nil virtuti inv., Tac. Agr. 27. 3. expr. by verb: quo accedi non potest: v. to approach. II. Of persons; difficult of access: ad quem non faciles (difficiles) sunt aditus, cf. Cic. Fam. 6, 13: Nep.: Hor.: parum obvius et expositus, cf. Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 2.
INACCESSIBLE Copy link • INACCESSIBLEinaccessus (post-classical; Plin.): aditu carens (which there is no approaching; e.g., saxa): quo adire fas non est (which it is not lawful to approach). Somewhat inaccessible, difficilior aditu. Inaccessible to anything, impenetrabilis alicui rei (not to be penetrated by it; e.g., specus imbribus). To make anything inaccessible, aliquid ex omni aditu claudere (to cut off all approach to it); aliquid obsepire (to block it up; e.g., viam). IMPROPR., rari aditus (of a person who does not easily allow himself to be approached). To make one’s self inaccessible, aditum petentibus conveniendi non dare: anybody is inaccessible, aditus ad aliquem interclusi sunt: to be inaccessible to bribes, animum adversus dona incorruptum gerere (after Sall., Jug., 43, fin): to be inaccessible to flattery, assentatoribus aures non patefacere: not to be inaccessible to flattery, assentatoribus aures patefacere; adulari (passively) se sinere (Cic.).