necessity Copy link Outline I. Unavoidableness; impossibility of being otherwise1. nĕcessĭtas2. nĕcessĭtūdo (less freq. in this sense than preced.3. expr. by nĕcessĕ, nĕcessāriumII. Want, pressing circumstance1. ĕgestas2. nĕcessĭtas3. nĕcessĭtūdoIII. An indispensable thingIV. In special sense, the n.s of nature • necessity: I. Unavoidableness; impossibility of being otherwise: 1. nĕcessĭtas: fatal n. (in phil. sense), fatalis n., Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 55 (cf. id. Fat. pass.): to yield to n., n. parere, id. Fam. 4, 9: to impose on any one the n. of doing something, n. alicui afferre aliquid faciendi, id. Ph. 10, 1, 2; n. imponere, Liv. 21, 44; n. injungere, Auct. B. Alex. 44: laid under a n., necessitate adductus, Caes. B. G. 6, 12; vi ac n. coactus, Cic. Quint. 16, 51; n. adstrictus, id. N. D. 1, 7, extr. 2. nĕcessĭtūdo (less freq. in this sense than preced.: in Cic. only in the work, de Inv.): to impose a n. on any one, n. alicui imponere, Sall. Cat. 33, extr.; facere, Tac. A. 3, 64: cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 57, sqq. 3. expr. by nĕcessĕ, nĕcessārium: it is a n. for a mortal body to die at some time, corpus mortale aliquo tempore perire n. est, Cic. Inv. 2, 57, 170: v. necessary. Phr.: to do a thing from n., coactum [necessitate] aliquid facere: v. compulsion. II. Want, pressing circumstance: 1. ĕgestas: v. want, destitution. Prov.: n. the mother of invention, ingeniosa rerum egestas, Claud. (R. and A.). 2. nĕcessĭtas: on account of one's own n.s (pressing circumstances), suarum n. causa, Caes. B. G. 7, 89: Liv. 3. nĕcessĭtūdo: Sall.: v. need. III. An indispensable thing: *quod carere non possis; res omnino necessaria: v. necessary. IV. In special sense, the n.s of nature: desideria obscaena; requisita naturae: v. nature (VII.).
NECESSITY Copy link • NECESSITYState of being necessary, necessitas (Cic.); necessitudo (of moral or abstract necessity; Sall. uses this word to denote “force of circumstances;” Vid: Herzog, ad Sall., Cat., 17, 2, and ad Caes., B.C., 1, 8): hypothetical necessity, necessitudo cum adjunctione (opposed to necessitudo simplex, Cic., Inv., 2, 57, 172): unavoidable necessity, necessitas fatalis; fati necessitas (Cic.): to impose the necessity, place anybody under the necessity, in necessitatem imponere, afferre (Cic.); injungere (Hirt.); cogere, adigere, compellere aliquem (Cic.); aliquem in eam necessitatem adducere ut (Liv.): you have placed me under the sad necessity, vos me invitum, nolentem, coëgistis, or eo compulistis: to make a virtue of necessity, facere de necessitate virtutem (Hier., in Ruf., 3, n. 2; Ep. 54, n. 6): I see no necessity, non video, non invenio, aliquid cogat, eo compellat: to see, show, the necessity of, videre, ostendere, aliter fieri, evenire, non potuisse: Peripatetici perturbari animos necesse esse dicunt (maintain the necessity of the passions, Cic.): from necessity, necessitate coactus (Cic.); necessario, necessaria re coactus (only in Caes., ; Vid: Held. ad Caes., B.C., 1, 40); also coactus only (Cic.): ex necessitate (Tac.): to yield to necessity, neeessitati parere, servire: without any necessity, nulla necessitate premente (Cic.); nulla re cogente; sine necessitate; sine justa or idonea causa: in case of necessity, si opus fuerit; si usus fuerit; si quando usus sit; si res postularit; necessitate cogente (after Cic.): only in an extreme case of necessity, non nisi summa necessitate cogente, nisi summa necessitas urgeat: necessity is the mother of invention, ingeniosa rerum egestas (Claudius). Poverty, Vid: POVERTY.