wilderness
wilderness
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P. and V. ἐρημία, ἡ.
subs.
P. and V. ἐρημία, ἡ.
WILDERNESS
locus desertus: locus vastus et desertus: solitudo vasta: solitudo avia. A complete wilderness omnis humani cultus solitudo (Curt. 7 3 12): to retire into the wilderness secedere or discedere in solitudines: to pass one’s life in a wilderness degere aetatem inter feras: to turn a country into a wilderness vastas solitudines facere ex terra; vastitatem reddere in terra; tectis atque agris vastitatem inferre.
locus desertus: locus vastus et desertus: solitudo vasta: solitudo avia. A complete wilderness omnis humani cultus solitudo (Curt. 7 3 12): to retire into the wilderness secedere or discedere in solitudines: to pass one’s life in a wilderness degere aetatem inter feras: to turn a country into a wilderness vastas solitudines facere ex terra; vastitatem reddere in terra; tectis atque agris vastitatem inferre.
wilderness:
1. lŏcus dēsertus, also desertum as subs.: Caes.: Virg.: Vulg.: v.DESERT .
2. sōlĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.: what a w. there was in the fields, what a waste, quae solitudo esset in agris, quae vastitas, Cic. Verr. 4, 51, 114: where they make a w. they call it peace, ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant, Tac. Agr. 30.
3. vastĭtas: let them not prefer a w. and solitude to friendly nations, ne vastitatem ac solitudinem mallent quam amicos populos, Tac. A. 13, 55: into such a w. did he turn the Sabine land, tantam vastitatem in Sabino agro reddidit, Liv. 3, 26. Phr.: land reduced by pestilence to a desolate w., genus agrorum propter pestilentiam vastum atque desertum, Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 70.
1. lŏcus dēsertus, also desertum as subs.: Caes.: Virg.: Vulg.: v.
2. sōlĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.: what a w. there was in the fields, what a waste, quae solitudo esset in agris, quae vastitas, Cic. Verr. 4, 51, 114: where they make a w. they call it peace, ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant, Tac. Agr. 30.
3. vastĭtas: let them not prefer a w. and solitude to friendly nations, ne vastitatem ac solitudinem mallent quam amicos populos, Tac. A. 13, 55: into such a w. did he turn the Sabine land, tantam vastitatem in Sabino agro reddidit, Liv. 3, 26. Phr.: land reduced by pestilence to a desolate w., genus agrorum propter pestilentiam vastum atque desertum, Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 70.