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inopia

inopia, want, lack, scarcity

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Sulla inopia hostium occidendi finem fecit
Sulla made an end of killing because of the indigence of his enemies

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inopiast Noun: feminine ablative singular, Noun: feminine nominative singular, Noun: feminine vocative singular of inopia

See inopiast in Morpho

ĭn-ŏpĭa, ae, f. [inops], want, lack, scarcity.
  • I In gen.: argenti, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 55 (334): summa rerum omnium, Caes. B. G. 5, 2: frumenti commeatusque, id. ib. 3, 6: frumenti, Sall. J. 91, 1; cf.: frumentaria, Caes. B. G. 5, 24: et amore pereo et inopia argentaria, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 66 (295): loci, Liv. 1, 33, 6: advocatorum, Tac. A. 11, 7: consilii, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 2: criminum, id. Rosc. Am. 16, 48: occasionis, Suet. Cal. 56: remedii, Tac. A. 13, 57: veri, id. H. 1, 35 al.—
  • II In partic., a want, esp. of necessaries, want, need, indigence, scarcity, fewness.
    • A Lit.: opem ferre inopiae, i. e. to one in want, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 3 (617): Quor (me) conducebas? Bal. Inopia; alius non erat, id. Ps. 3, 2, 9 (798): ne inopiam cives objectare possint tibi, id. Trin. 3, 2, 27 (653): si propter inopiam in egestate estis, Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88: utrum propter imbecillitatem atque inopiam desiderata sit amicitia, id. Lael. 8, 26; cf.: amicitiam ex inopia atque egestate natam volunt, id. ib. 9, 29; so also with egestas, id. Cat. 2, 11, 24: in Rhodiorum inopia et fame summaque annonae caritate, id. Off. 3, 12, 50: inopiae subsidium, Caes. B. C. 1, 48: inopiam vitare, id. ib. 3, 17: ad pudendam inopiam delabi, Tac. A. 2, 38: inopiam alicui facere, to bring one to want, id. H. 3, 48: manuum mercede inopiam tolerare, Sall. C. 38, 7: multorum dierum inopia contrahere pestem, Just. 2, 13, 12: dispensatio inopiae, of scanty supplies, Liv. 4, 12, 10.—
    • B Transf.
      • 1 Want, helplessness: praesidio esse contra vim et gratiam solitudini atque inopiae, to those who have no protectors, Cic. Quint. 1, 5: in hac causa improbitatem et gratiam cum inopia et veritate contendere, id. ib. 27, 84; id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20; id. Clu. 20, 57: judicum, worthlessness, id. Att. 1, 16, 2: ingenti cum difficultate itinerum locorumque inopia, and the want of necessaries in these regions, Vell. 2, 54, 3; Sen. ad Helv. 12.—
      • 2 Of a speaker: inopia et jejunitas, poverty of ideas, Cic. Brut. 55, 202.—
      • 3 Of the want of fruition: incendere animum cupidum alicujus inopiā, Ter. Heaut. 367.

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