Egeo, eges. egui, egére. Tam genitiuo, qum ablatiuo iungitur, To neede: to lacke: to be in extreame pouertie.Aeris egere Hor. Authoritate egere. Cice. Egere auxilij Cæs. Auxilio alicuius egere. Cic.Egeo consilij & consilio.Cic.I cannot tell what to do.Consolatione egere.Cic.Eget humanitate.Plin. iun.He hath litle gentlenesse, pitie, or mercis.Non eget interpretatione. Pli. It is plaine: it needeth no exposition.Literis Græcis de philosophia non egere.Cic.Not to neede % knowledge of the grecke tong in matters of philosophy.Mentis egere.Ouid. Moderamine egere. Ouid.Monitoris egere. Hor. To lacke one to aduertise him.Oculis ad cernendum egere. Cic To lacke eies.Officio egere.Ouid. Ope. Ouid.Pudoris.Ouid.To haue little shame.Egens rationis. Mart. Vnreasonable: that hath no reason.Ratione egere res dicitur. Ci. When there is no cause or reason why it should be.Egere rebus omnibus.Cic.To haue neede of al thinges.Tempore egere.Cic.To lacke time.Egeo tui abeuntis. Plau. I haue neede of thy helpe that art going from me. Voce egere. Ouid. Egere.Cic.To be in pouerty: to be a poore caitife. Egetur acriter.Plaut. Amatur atque egetur acriter. I doe both loue and lacke exceedingly: I am both in great loue and great pouerty.
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ĕgĕo, ŭi, 2 (part. fut. egitura, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 24), v. n. [cf. Gr. a)xh/n, poor; root ax-, agx, in a)/xos, a)/gxw, etc.; Lat. angustus, angina], to be needy (for syn. cf.: indigeo, careo, vaco). I. Prop. a.Absol. (so usually in Plaut. and Ter.), to be needy, to be in want, to be poor: me in divitiis esse agrumque habere, egere illam autem, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 57; cf. id. Most. 1, 3, 73; id. Truc. 2, 1, 12; 4, 2, 32; id. Trin. 2, 2, 49; id. Capt. 3, 4, 49; Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11; Cic. Rosc. Com. 8 (opp. locupletem esse); Hor. S. 2, 2, 103 (opp. dives); id. Ep. 1, 2, 56; 2, 1, 228 et saep.—Pass. impers.: amatur atque egetur acriter, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 39.—b.To need, want, lack, to be in need of, with the thing needed. (a). In the abl.: earum rerum, quibus egeremus, invectio, Cic. Off. 2, 3 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 2, 5; id. Fam. 10, 16, 2: omnibus necessariis rebus, Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4: copiis, Cic. Off. 1, 16 fin.: oculis ad cernendum, id. N. D. 2, 57, 143: bibliothecis Graecis, id. Tusc. 2, 2, 6; cf. id. Div. 2, 2, 5: medicină, id. Lael. 3: nullo, id. ib. 9, 30: consilio, opera nostra, id. ib. 14fin.: auxilio, id. Fam. 2, 17, 16: sapiens eget nulla re: egere enim necessitatis est, Sen. Ep. 9 med. (cf. I. a. supra).—Of inanimate subjects: opus eget exercitatione non parva, Cic. Lael. 5, 17; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 38; 1, 8, 4; 1, 10, 7 et saep.—(b). In the gen. (in Cic. dub., v. the foll.): si pudoris egeas, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 187: tui, admonitricis, id. Truc. 2, 6, 20; cf. id. Mil. 4, 2, 42; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 67: auxilii, Caes. B. G. 6, 11, 4: medicinae (al. medicina; cf. the preced.), Cic. Fam. 9, 3 fin.: medici, curatoris, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 102; cf. custodis, id. S. 1, 4, 118: aeris (opp. locuples mancipiis), id. Ep. 1, 6, 39: nullius, id. ib. 1, 17, 22: nutricis, Ov. Tr. 6, 135: alienae facundiae, Tac. A. 13, 3 al.—Of inanimate subjects: nec prosum quicquam nostrae rationis egere, Lucr. 3, 44; Quint. 5, 14, 5; 2, 16, 13; 3, 8, 63 al.—(g). In the acc.: nec quicquam eges, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 12; cf. the foll.—(d). Supplied by inf. pass.: clariores quam ut indicari egeant, Athenae, Mel. 2, 3, 4; cf. id. 2, 4, 1.II. Sometimes transf. A. (For the usual careo.) To be without, to be destitute of, not to have: C. Macer auctoritate semper eguit, Cic. Brut. 67, 238: donis tuis, somne, Stat. S. 5, 4, 2.—Of inanimate subjects: res proprio nomine, Lucr. 3, 134. — B.To do without, to bear the want of: si quid est, quod utar, utor; si non est, egeo, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 23, 1.—C. Like the Gr. de/omai (cf. also the Engl. to want), to desire, wish for: tui amans abeuntis egeo, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 1: plausoris, Hor. A. P. 154: tantuli, id. S. 1, 1, 59; cf. in the abl.: pane, id. Ep. 1, 10, 11.—Hence, ĕgens, entis, P. a., needy, necessitous, in want, very poor (class.; cf.: egenus, indigens, indigus, inops, pauper, mendicus): quocirca (amici) et absentes assunt egentes abundant, Cic. Lael. 7; Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 1; 2, 3, 4; id. Stich. 2, 2, 7; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 30; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 10; Cic. Clu. 59, 163; id. Fl. 15, 35 et saep.; cf. opp. locuples, Caes. B. C. 3, 59, 2; Dig. 22, 5, 3; opp. abundans, Cic. Par. 6, 1, 43: delectus egentium ac perditorum, Caes. B. G. 7, 4, 2; cf. Sall. C. 31, 1; 18, 4.— Comp.: nihil rege egentius, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 4.—Sup.: egestates tot egentissimorum hominum, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5; id. Sest. 52, 111; id. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.; opp. locuples, Liv. 1, 47.—Adv. does not occur.