3. Vexation—Care—Equanimity—Contentment—Affliction

_in aegritudine, sollicitudine esse_—to be vexed, mortified, anxious.

_aegritudine, sollicitudine affici_—to be vexed, mortified, anxious.

_sollicitum esse_—to be vexed, mortified, anxious.

_nihil omnino curare_—not to trouble oneself about a thing.

_non laborare de aliqua re_—not to trouble oneself about a thing.

_aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est,

mihi sollicitudinem affert_—something harasses me, makes me anxious.

_aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit_ (Tusc. 3. 13. 27)—anxiety

gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it.

_aegritudine, curis confici_—to be wasting away with grief.

_aegritudine afflictum, debilitatum esse, iacēre_—to be bowed down,

prostrated by grief.

_aegritudinem alicuius elevare_—to comfort another in his trouble.

_aliquem aegritudine levare_—to comfort another in his trouble.

_quieto, tranquillo, securo animo esse_—to enjoy peace of mind.

_rebus suis, sorte sua contentum esse_—to be contented.

_satis habeo, satis mihi est_ c. Inf.—I am content to...

_paucis, parvo contentum esse_—to be satisfied with a little.

_fortunae meae me paenitet_[1]—I am discontented with my lot.

_non me paenitet, quantum profecerim_—I am not dissatisfied with my

progress.

_in luctu esse_ (Sest. 14. 32)—to suffer affliction.

_in sordibus luctuque iacēre_—to be in great trouble, affliction.

_mors alicuius luctum mihi attulit_—some one's death has plunged me in

grief.

_in maximos luctus incidere_—to be overwhelmed by a great affliction.

_magnum luctum haurire_ (without _ex-_)—to undergo severe trouble,

trials.

_luctum percipere ex aliqua re_—to feel sorrow about a thing.

_omnem luctum plane abstergere_—to banish all sad thoughts.

_luctum deponere_ (Phil. 14. 13. 34)—to lay aside one's grief.

_vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas_ (Fam. 5. 16. 5)—time

assuages the most violent grief.

[1] The evidence of inscriptions and the best MSS. seems to point to

the derivation of _paenitet_, not from _poena_ (cf. _punire,

impunis_), but from the root contained in _penes, penetrare, penitus_;

its original meaning would thus be, "to be touched, affected within,

at heart" (Bréal).

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