gloom Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig.1. tĕnebrae, arum2. cālīgo, ĭnis, f. (thick darkness)3. tristĭtia • gloom: I. Lit.: tĕnebrae, cālīgo: v. darkness. II. Fig.: of calamity, sadness, etc.: 1. tĕnebrae, arum: in what g. is this life spent, qualibus in t. degitur hoc aevi! Lucr.: if exile have cast a g. over you, si quid tenebrarum offudit exsilium, Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 82. 2. cālīgo, ĭnis, f. (thick darkness): see now the g. of those times, vide nunc c. temporum illorum, Cic. Pl. 40, 96. Join: caligo et tenebrae, Cic. in Sen. 3, 5. 3. tristĭtia: from the height of joy, suddenly a g. fell upon all, ex summa laetitia, repente omnes t. invasit, Sall. Cat. 31: a kind of g. contracts the face of the earth, quasi t. quaedam contrahit terram, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102: v. sadness.
GLOOM Copy link • GLOOMPROPR., [Vid: DARKNESS.] IMPROPR., With reference to the countenance or mind, tristitia: moestitia (sadness; SYN. in SAD): moestus et conturbatus vultus (the saddened countenance): caligo (e.g., caligo bonorum, the gloom that filled the mind of good citizens, Cic., Prov. Cons., 18, 43: also, of the gloomy aspect oj the times [Vid: GLOOMY]: tenebrae (e.g., to throw a gloom over anybody or anything, aliquid tenebrarum offundere, Cic., Tusc., 3, 34, 82; also, lucem eripere et quasi noctem quandam rebus offundere, Cic., N.D., 1, 3, 6; also of the gloomy aspect of things, tenebrae reipublicae, Cic.). A certain gloom of mind, contractiuncula quaedam animi (Cic.). To dispel anybody’s (mental) gloom, caliginem ab animo tamquam ab oculis dispellere.