agony Copy link Outline 1. acerbissimus animi sensus ac dolor, Cic.2. acerbissimus or acerrimus dolor, Cic. • agony: 1. acerbissimus animi sensus ac dolor, Cic. 2. acerbissimus or acerrimus dolor, Cic.: v. grief, pain. Phr.: in what a. the wretched mothers are! ut miserae matres cruciantur! Pl.: I am in mental a., discrucior animi, Ter.: Pl.: to be in a., dolore angi, Cic.: I am in a. about that, id ego excrucior, Pl. (In Vulg. Luc. 22, 44, being in an a., he prayed more earnestly, factus in agonia, prolixius orabat.)
AGONY Copy link • AGONYcruciatus (any pangs, natural or artificial; applicable to pangs of the conscience): tormentum (especially pangs caused by an instrument of torture). Both often in plur.; also cruciamentum (a torturing: cruciamenta morborum, Cic.). To be in agony, cruciari; excruciali; discruciari; torqueri.