difficultas

diffĭcultas, ātis ( gen. plur. difficultatium, Liv. 9, 31, 14; Gell. 14, 2, 3), f. [difficilis], difficulty, trouble, distress, poverty, want.

I.

In gen. (freq. in good prose in sing. and plur.

(α).

With gen.:

ineundi consilii,

Cic. Rep. 1, 34:

discendi (with labor),

id. Div. 1, 47, 105:

dicendi,

id. de Or. 1, 26, 120:

navigandi,

id. ib. 1, 18, 82; Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.:

belli gerendi,

id. ib. 3, 10:

faciundi pontis,

id. ib. 4, 17, 2 et saep.:

viarum,

id. ib. 7, 56, 2; id. B. C. 1, 70; cf.

loci,

Sall. J. 98, 5; Tac. Agr. 17 fin.:

rerum,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; Sall. C. 57, 2; Suet. Tib. 16; 21:

morbi,

Cels. 3, 1; cf.

urinae,

id. 2, 1 al.:

vecturae,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 82:

summa navium,

id. ib. 2, 5, 20:

rei frumentariae,

Caes. B. G. 7, 17, 3:

annonae,

Suet. Aug. 41; cf.

nummaria,

want. scarcity of money, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28; Suet. Tib. 48:

domestica,

distressed circumstances, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 14 et saep.—

(β).

Absol.:

ne qua ob eam suspicionem difficultas eveniat,

Plaut. Epid. 2, 2, 105; Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 45:

perspicio quantum in agendo difficultatis et quantum laboris sit habitura (altera pars actionis),

Cic. Clu. 1, 2;

so with labor,

Quint. 11, 1, 68; and:

habere difficultatem,

Cic. Brut. 7; id. Att. 13, 33:

magnam res ad receptum difficultatem afferebat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 51, 6; so with ad:

haec res Caesari difficultatem ad consilium capiendum afferebat,

id. B. G. 7, 10, 1;

and without it,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11:

delabi in difficultates,

id. Fat. 17: erat in magnis difficultatibus res, ne, etc., Caes. B. G. 7, 35 et saep.—

* II.

In partic. (acc. to difficilis, no. II.), obstinacy, captiousness, moroseness:

arrogantiam pertulit, difficultatem exsorbuit,

Cic. Mur. 9, 19.