affliction Copy link Outline I. A state of pain, distress, a griefII. A cause of such a state • affliction: I. A state of pain, distress, a grief: mĭsĕrĭa: he could by no means extricate himself from that a., nulla ratione se ab illa m. eripere poterat, Cic.: v. wretchedness, distress, grief. II. A cause of such a state: mălum, adversae res: v. evil, misfortune, calamity.
AFFLICTION Copy link • AFFLICTIONsubjectively as a state of mind: miseria (wretchedness) :aegritudo, aegrimonia (opposed to alacritas; sickness of soul from a sense of present evil; the latter implying that it is an abiding sense): dolor (opposed to gaudium, a present sense of hardship, pain, or grief): tristitia, moestitia, masculine, (the natural, involuntary manifestation of grief): angor (passionate, tormenting apprehension of a coming evil; sollicitudo being the anxious, unsettling apprehension of it): moeror (is stronger than dolor, being the feeling and its manifestation): afflictatio (=“aegritudo cum vexatione corporis,” Cic.): luctus (is mourning; i. e., by conventional signs). Objectively; an affliction, malum; plur., mala :aerumna (an old and half-poetical word; but used by Cic., a hardship that almostexceeds human strength): casus adversus, or, from context, casus only; res adversae, fortunae afflictae: fortuna adversa: calamitas, miseria, acerbitates (SYN. in ADVERSITY). Time of affliction, res miserae, afflictae, angustiae temporum, tempora luctuosa. OBSERVE: infortunium is used by the comic writers only of a corporeal punishment. To be in affliction, in miseria esse or versari, miserum esse: in summa infelicitate versari: in malis esse, jacere; malis urgeri; in malia versari; pessimo loco esse; iniquissima fortuna uti: angi; angore confici; angoribus premi, agitari, urgeri; angi intimis sensibus: angore cruciari: about anything, dolere or moerere rem or re; dolorem ex re capere, accipere, suscipere, haurire; molestiam trahere ex re (to feel oppressed and dispirited by it): in great affliction about anything, magnum dolorem ex re accipere; ex re magnam animo molestiam capere: to come into affliction, in miseriam incidere; in mala praecipitare: to relieve anybody from affliction, miseriis aliquem levare: to deliver him, a miseria vindicare; ex miseriis eripere: to endure affliction, miserias ferre, serumnas perpeti (i. e., patiently to the end).