Ango, angis, anxi, anctum in supino, teste Prisciano. ángere. To throtcle or strangle: to torment, vere, or trouble.Angunt oculos spongiarum stirpes præfractæ, &c. Col. To straine and hurt.Ardeolæ in coitu anguntur. Plin. Are almost strangled. Angere, per metaphoram.Cic.To trouble or vere.Hannibalem angebat quòd, &c.Liu.It grieued.Angit animum quotidiana cura. Ter. Vereth.Angere sese animi.Plaut.To torment himselfe in his mind.Angi animo.Cic. Angi cruciatu timoris. Cicer.To be sore tormented inith feare.Angi desyderio, aut desyderijs naturalibus. Colum. Angi diuitijs.Cic. Dolore. Cic. Angi expectatione. Cic.Angere aliquem incommodis.Plaut.Suis incommodis angi.Cic.To be sore gtieued.Angor intimis sensibus. Ci. I am vered euen at the bottome of my hart.Angi rebus alicuius prosperis.Cic.Angebatur ad impensas regis animus.Liu.Angi de re aliqua.Cic.
Anxius, Adiectiuum, ab Ango angis. Cic.Carefull: heany.Anxiæ ægritudines & acerbæ.Cic.Painesull and grieuous.Anxio animo esse.Cic.To haue a heany and carefull minde.Anxia cura. Plin. Heauy care.Anxia oratio. Gell. Made with to much diligence.Anxij senes.Cic.Carefull old men. Anxius, cum genitiuo. vt Anxius securitatis nepotum. Pli. Carefull for the securitie of his nephewes.Anxius mentis.Ouid.In anguish and care of minde.Anxius gloriæ alterius. Liuius. In anguish and griefe for the honour of an other.Anxia sunt viræ pectora nostra tuæ.Ouid. Id est, De tua vita solicitus est meus animus. Cum accusatiuo, vt Anxius vicem suam.Liu.In anguish and care for the danger that he is in. Cum ablatiuo, vt His anxij curis homines.Liu.Anxium habere aliquem dicitur res. Hirtius. To vere and grieue.
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ango, xi, ctum, and anxum, 3, v. a. (perf. and sup. rest only on the assertion in Prisc. p. 895 P.; Diom. p. 366 P.; part. anctus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 24 Müll.; acc. to Prisc. l. c., the sup. is sometimes anxum; cf. Struve, 214) [the root of this word is widely diffused: a)/gkos, a bend, hollow; whence, valley, ravine; from the notion of closeness, come a)/gxw = to press tight, to strangle, throttle; ango; Germ. hangen, hängen; Engl. hang; angustus, anxius, anxietas; old Germ. Angust; Germ. Angst = Engl. anguish; from the notion of being bent, come ancus anculus, a crouching slave, ancora = Gr. a)/gkura; angulus = Germ. Angel, Engl. angle; old Germ. Angul, a hook; Gael. ingle = nook for the fire, fireplace; ancale = a)gka/lh, Engl. ankle; ancon, and the pr. names Ancon and Ancona; uncus, curved, crooked; ungula, claw; unguis, claw, nail; cf. Sanscr. ahus, close; ahas, anguish; ankāmi, to bend; ankas, the lap (sinus), a hook; for the other Greek words belonging to this group, v. L. and S. s. vv. a)/gkos and a)/gxw]. I.Lit., to bind, draw, or press together; of the throat, to throttle, strangle (so a)/gxw; in this signif. antiquated; hence, in class. perh. only in the poets; in prose, instead of it, suffocare; cf. Diom. p. 361 P.): angit inhaerens Elisos oculos et siccum sanguine guttur, Verg. A. 8, 260; so id. G. 3, 497: cum colla minantia monstri Angeret, Stat. Th. 4, 828; 6, 270; Sil. 13, 584.—Hence, of plants, to choke, Col. 4, 2, 2; 6, 27, 7 al.—II. Metaph. A.To cause (physical) pain; hence, angi, to feel or suffer pain, Plin. 10, 60, 79, 164. —B. Most freq. of the mind, to distress, torment, torture, vex, trouble; and angi, to feel distressed, to suffer torment, etc.: illum incommodis dictis angam, Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 11: cura angit hominem, Ter. Phorm. 1, 3, 8; Lucr. 4, 1134: cruciatu timoris angi?Cic. Off. 2, 7, 25: multa sunt, quae me sollicitant anguntque, id. Att. 1, 18: angebar singularum horarum exspectatio ne, id. ib. 9, 1 et saep.; Liv. 2, 7; 21, 1 al.: ne munere te parvo beet aut incommodus angat (cruciet, cum non vult dare quod poscis, Cruqu.), Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 75: ad humum maerore gravi deducit et angit, id. A. P. 110: poëta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit,
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, id. Ep. 2, 1, 211 al.: Pompeius ... curis animum mordacibus angit, Luc. 2, 680 sq.: Ea res animum illius anxit, Gell. 1, 3: (aemula eam) vehementer angebat, Vulg. 1 Reg. 1, 6.—With de (in respect to): de Statio manumisso et non nullis aliis rebus angor, Cic. Att. 2, 18 fin.: de quo angor et crucior, id. ib. 7, 22.—Sometimes with gen. (on this const. cf. Roby, II. 1321): absurde facis, qui angas te animi, Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 6: (Sthenius) angebatur animi necessario, quod etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 34, 84. But Cic. also uses the abl.: angor animo, Brut. 2, 7: audio te animo angi, Fam. 16, 142; and acc. to some edd. Tusc. 1, 40, 96 Seyff. (v. further on this gen. s. v. animus).
anxĭus, a, um, adj. [v. ango], distressed, solicitous, uneasy, troubled, anxious (as a permanent state of mind). I.Lit.: neque omnes anxii, qui anguntur aliquando, nec qui anxii semper anguntur, Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 27; cf.: anxietas and angor.—But frequently momentary' anxiae aegritudines et acerbae, Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34: anxio animo aut sollicito esse, id. Fin. 2, 17, 55: spiritus anxius, Vulg. Bar. 3, 1: senes morosi et anxii, Cic. Sen. 18, 65: Oratio pauperis, cum anxius fuerit, Vulg. Psa. 101, 1: anxius curis, Ov. M. 9, 275: mentes, Hor. C. 3, 21, 17: anxius angor, Lucr. 3, 993; 6, 1158: anxium habere aliquem, to bring one into trouble, to make anxious or solicitous, Auct. B. Afr. 71; Tac. A. 2, 65.—With gen. animi or mentis: animi anxius, Sall. J. 55, 4 Cort., where Dietsch reads animo, and Gerl. omits it altogether: anxius mentis, Albin. 1, 398 (for this gen. v. animus, II. B. 1.).—The object on account of which one is anxious or solicitous is put, (a). In abl.: gloriā ejus, Liv. 25, 40: omine adverso, Suet. Vit. 8: venturis, Luc. 7, 20.—(b). In gen. (diff. from the preced. gen. animi and mentis): inopiae, Liv. 21, 48: furti (i. e. ne furtum fiat), Ov. M. 1, 623: vitae, id. H. 20, 198: securitatis, Plin. 15, 18, 20, 74: potentiae, Tac. A. 4, 12: sui, id. H. 3, 38; in acc. vicem, Liv. 8, 35.—(g). With de: de famā ingenii, Quint. 11, 1, 50: de successore, Suet. Calig. 19: de instantibus curis, Curt. 3, 2; with pro, Plin. Ep. 4, 21.—(d). With ad: ad eventum alicujus rei, Luc. 8, 592.—(e) With in and abl.: noli anxius esse in divitiis, Vulg. Eccli. 5, 10.—(z) With ne and an: anxius, ne bellum oriatur, Sall. J. 6, 6: anxius, an obsequium senatūs an studia plebis reperiret, Tac. A. 14, 13.—II.Transf.A. In an act. sense, that makes anxious, troubles, awakens solicitude, troublesome: curae, Liv. 1, 56 (cf.: anxius curis, Ov. M. 9, 275): timor, Verg. A. 9, 89: accessu propter aculeos anxio, Plin. 12, 8, 18, 33.—B.Prepared with anxious care: elegantia orationis neque morosa neque anxia, Gell. 15, 7, 3; cf. anxietas, II.—Hence, adv.: anxĭē, anxiously, with anxiety (not in Cic.): aliquid ferre, Sall. J. 82, 3: auguria quaerere, Plin. 11, 52, 114, 273: certare, Suet. Ner. 23: aliquam prosequi, Justin. 1, 4: loqui, Gell. 20, 1: anxie doctus, Macr. S. 5, 18; 7, 7.—Comp.: anxius, Gargil. Mart. p. 395 Mai; and formed by magis: magis anxie, Sall. ad Caes. Ord. Re Publ. 2 fin.