Inops, inopis, pen. corr. om. gen. Plaut.Poore: needie: lacking helpe.Quum premeretur inops multitudo ab ijs qui maiores opes habebant, &c.Cic.The poore commons lacking help.Inops ab amicis.Cic.Dispurueied of friends: lacking friÊds that hath few frindes.Inops ad ornandum disciplina.Cic.A learning that teacheth not eloquence.Inops verbis.Cic.That lacketh wordes. Æqui inops.Stat.Inops amicorum.Cic.That hath few friends.Animi inops. Virgil. So troubled as he cannot tell what to doeInops auxilij.Liu.That lacked helpe.Inops consilij. Liuius. That lacketh counsaile, and cannot tel what to doe.Inops dicendi sapientia.Cic.Wisdome lacking eloquence.Fortunæ inops. Tac. Whome fortune sauoureth not.Mentis inops. Oui. Astonied: dismaide: that cannot tel what to doe.Terra pacis inops.Ouid.Rationis inops.Stat.That lacketh reason.Regnorum inopes Stat. Inops remedij. Plin. Versus inopes rerum. Hor. Verses voide of good sentences & matter.Virorum inopes. Tac. Abundans & inops, contraria.Cic.Inops & exhastum ærarium.Cic.A poore treasure & cleane wasted.Amicus inops. Hor. A poore friend.Amor inops. Lucr. Domus inops.Ouid.Lingua inops.Cic.A poore language that is not copious.Senectam inopem trahere.Ouid.Turba inops. Vir. Victus inops. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĭnops, ŏpis, adj. [2. in-opis], without resources, helpless, weak (class.). I. In gen.: ab ope inops, qui ejus indiget, Varr. L. L. 5, 92 Müll.: inopes relicti a duce, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34: nihil cum potentiore juris humani relinquitur inopi, Liv. 9, 1, 8: solare inopem et succurre relictae, Verg. A. 9, 290.—(b). With ab: sic inopes et ab amicis, et ab existimatione sunt, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 2. — (g). With inf.: inopes laudis conscendere carmen,
unable
, Prop. 2, 10, 23 (3, 1, 23 Müll.).— II. In partic., helpless through poverty, destitute, needy, indigent.A.Lit.: res pauperes inopesque, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 24: aerarium inops et exhaustum,
empty
, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 70, 164: te semper inops vexet cupido,
unsated
, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 98: domus cujusvis inopis, Nep. Ages. 7, 4. —Esp., of the dead who could not pay Charon's fee: haec omnis inops inhumataque turba est, Verg. A. 6, 325; cf.: infletaeque jacent inopes super arva catervae, Aus. Mos. 4: mortuis in ore nummum immittere, ut apud inferos non tamquam inopes errent, Schol. Juv. 3, 267. — (b). With gen., destitute of, without: humanitatis, Cic. de Or. 2, 10, 40: amicorum, id. Lael. 15: animi, Verg. A. 4, 300: mentis, Ov. F. 4, 457: consilii, Liv. 26, 18, 6: rationis, Stat. Th. 1, 373: senatus auxilii humani, Liv. 3, 7, 7: terra pacis, Ov. P. 2, 2, 96: somni cibique, id. M. 14, 424: provinciae virorum, Tac. H. 2, 67: miles Martis,
that never fights
, Sil. 9, 334.—(g).Plur. as subst.: ĭnŏpes, um, opp. potentes, Sall. H. Fragm. 4, 61, 17 Dietsch.— Sing.: si nihil cum potentiore juris humani relinquitur inopi, Liv. 9, 1, 8. — B.Trop.1. Of inanimate things, mean, wretched, contemptible: inopis et pusilli animi esse, Hor. S. 1, 4, 17: nostras inopes noluit esse vias, Ov. Ib. 24: advorsus atque inops amor, Lucr. 4, 1142: odia aegra sine armis errabant, iraeque inopes,
impotent
, Val. Fl. 5, 147: vita, Vell. 2, 19, 4. —2. Of speech, poor in words or ideas, meagre: non erat abundans, non inops tamen, Cic. Brut. 67, 238: non inops verbis, id. ib. 70, 247: ad ornandum, id. ib. 76, 263: Latinam linguam non modo non inopem, sed locupletiorem etiam esse quam Graecam, id. Fin. 1, 3, 10: vir inopi lingua et infacundus, Gell. 18, 8, 6.