disaster Copy link Outline 1. clādis, is, f. (usu. a defeat in battle)2. călămĭtas3. incommŏdum (a milder word) • disaster: 1. clādis, is, f. (usu. a defeat in battle): to sustain a d. (a defeat), cl. accipere, Caes.: to cause a d., cl. afferre, Cic.; inferre, Liv.; facere, Sall. (all with dat.): a public d., cl. civitatis, Cic.: private d.s, cl. privatae, Liv. 2. călămĭtas: v. calamity. 3. incommŏdum (a milder word): Caes. (Sometimes infortunium, res adversae, etc., may do: v. misfortune.)
DISASTER Copy link • DISASTER 1. incommodum (unpleasant, inconvenient occurrence; often as euphemistic term for a defeat): malum: res mala or adversa (evil): casus adversus or infestus (mischance, mishap): adversa fortuna (adverse occurrence): calamitas (misery occasioned by great damage or loss; also by war): clades (disastrous occurrence; especially of disastrous military occurrence). A great disaster (i. e., disastrous defeat), magna clades atque calamitas: to cause a great disaster, cladem inferre; magnam cladem facere (Sall.): to bring a great disaster upon a state, etc., magnam alicui (e.g., populo Romano) cladem afferre: to meet with a disaster, cladem accipere: a great disaster, (maximam) calamitatem capere or accipere: disasters (= mishaps, mischances), incommoda, plur.; res adversae or incommodae: to meet with disasters, in res adversas incidere: to meet with nothing but disasters, multum malarum rerum sustinere; omnia mala aliquem consectantur: to bear disasters, mala ferre or perpeti: calamitates perferre (Caes.), tolerare (Cic.), ferre (Nep.); to save anybody from a disaster, calamitate prohibere aliquem: disheartened by these disasters, his proeliis calamitatibusque fractus. 2. v. Vid: To BLAST, INJURE, etc.