tediousness

tediousness
subs.
Slowness: P. βραδύτης, ἡ.
Irksomeness: P. βαρύτης, ἡ.

TEDIOUSNESS

molestia: gravis tarditas: temporis molestia.

tediousness: no exact word: it may sometimes be expr. by taedium, which primarily denotes the sense of weariness in persons, or an object that gives rise to it: the t. of a protracted war, longi taedia belli, Ov. M. 13, 213: the t. of a dead calm, tranquillitatis lentissimae t., Sen. Ep. 70, 3: rhetorical division relieves the sense of t., partitio t. levat, Quint. 4, 2, 49: oscĭtationes = tedious writings in Stat. S. 4, 9, 20: and perh. t. speaking in Quint. 11, 3, 3. Phr.: the t. of old writers, antiquorum scriptorum languor, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6: the t. of very embarrassed orations, impeditissimarum orationum spatia, Tac. Or. 19.