desolation Copy link Outline I. As act or process1. vastātio2. vastĭtasII. As state • desolation: I. As act or process: 1. vastātio: v. devastation. 2. vastĭtas: Liv. 3. sōlĭtūdo: Liv.: v. solitude, desert. II. As state: v. preced. art.
DESOLATION Copy link • DESOLATIONAct of laying waste, etc., vastatio: populatio: depopulatio (plundering; e.g., agrorum, aedium sacrarum): eversio: excidium (overthrow of a town, etc.). State of being desolate, vastitas. Desolate place, locus desertus: locus vastus et desertus; solitudo vasta or avia; omnis humani cultus solitudo (Curt. 7, 3, 12). State of being bereaved, afflicted, etc., orbitas (state of being bereaved; also figuratively; e.g., casum et orbitatem senatus, Cic.): viduitas (state of being widowed): solitudo (loneliness): (The words are found in this connection and order.) viduitas ac solitudo (e.g., qui jamdiu Caesenniae viduitate ac solitudine aleretur, Cic., Coecilius, 5, 13): viduitas omnium copiarum atque opum (Plaut., Rud. 3, 3, 2).