Inopia, fames, & summa annonæ caritas. Ci. Pouerty: famin and great dearth.Argentaria inopia, vel, inopia argenti. Plau. Lack of money.Inopia mihi est amicæ. Plau. A lacke a paramoure.Inopia argumentorum.Cic.Inopia consilij.Cic.Lack of counsaile.Frugum inopia & copia, contraria.Cic.Inopia frumenti & commeatus. Cæsar. Inopia loci.Liu.Lacke of place or roome.Rei frumentariæ inopia. Ci. Scarcitie or dearth of dittaile.Inopia stipendij. Plin. Lacke of money to pay souldioures. inopia tecti. Cic.Lacke of an house to dwel in. Incessit ambos inopia, Vide INCESSO.Leuare inopiam, Vide LEVIS.Mederi inopiæ frumentariæ, Vide MEDEOR.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĭn-ŏpĭa, ae, f. [inops], want, lack, scarcity.I. In gen.: argenti, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 55: summa rerum omnium, Caes. B. G. 5, 2: frumenti commeatusque, id. ib. 3, 6: frumenti, Sall. J. 91, 1; cf.: frumentaria, Caes. B. G. 5, 24: et amore pereo et inopia argentaria, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 66: loci, Liv. 1, 33, 6: advocatorum, Tac. A. 11, 7: consilii, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 2: criminum, id. Rosc. Am. 16, 48: occasionis, Suet. Cal. 56: remedii, Tac. A. 13, 57: veri, id. H. 1, 35 al.— II. In partic., a want, esp. of necessaries, want, need, indigence, scarcity, fewness.A.Lit.: opem ferre inopiae, i. e. to one in want, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 3: Quor (me) conducebas? Bal. Inopia; alius non erat, id. Ps. 3, 2, 9: ne inopiam cives objectare possint tibi, id. Trin. 3, 2, 27: si propter inopiam in egestate estis, Cic. Inv. 1, 47, 88: utrum propter imbecillitatem atque inopiam desiderata sit amicitia, id. Lael. 8, 26; cf.: amicitiam ex inopia atque egestate natam volunt, id. ib. 9, 29; so also with egestas, id. Cat. 2, 11, 24: in Rhodiorum inopia et fame summaque annonae caritate, id. Off. 3, 12, 50: inopiae subsidium, Caes. B. C. 1, 48: inopiam vitare, id. ib. 3, 17: ad pudendam inopiam delabi, Tac. A. 2, 38: inopiam alicui facere,
to bring one to want
, id. H. 3, 48: manuum mercede inopiam tolerare, Sall. C. 38, 7: multorum dierum inopia contrahere pestem, Just. 2, 13, 12: dispensatio inopiae,
of scanty supplies
, Liv. 4, 12, 10.—B.Transf.1.Want, helplessness: praesidio esse contra vim et gratiam solitudini atque inopiae,
to those who have no protectors
, Cic. Quint. 1, 5: in hac causa improbitatem et gratiam cum inopia et veritate contendere, id. ib. 27, 84; id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20; id. Clu. 20, 57: judicum,