may alleviate

lĕvātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.].

A lifting up, raising, elevating:

onerum levationes facere,

Vitr. 10, 8; a metrical t. t. = arsis, Aug. Mas. II. 18.—

Trop.

An alleviation, mitigation, relief (class.):

alicui esse levationi,

Cic. Fam. 6, 4, 5:

ea, quae levationem habeant aegritudinum,

may produce an alleviation, may alleviate, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119:

levationem invenire acerbissimis doloribus,

id. ib. 5, 41, 121:

doloris at officii debiti,

id. Att. 12, 23, 3.—

A diminishing (rare but class.):

vitiorum,

Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 67:

periculi,

Vell. 2, 130 fin.

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morbus, i, m. [Sanscr. mar-, die; Gr. brotos (for mrotos), marainô; cf. morior, marceo], a sickness, disease, disorder, distemper, ailment, illness, malady, of body or mind (class.).

Corporeal:

morbum appellant totius corporis corruptionem: aegrotationem morbum cum imbecillitate: vitium cum partes corporis inter se dissident: ex quo pravitas membrorum, distortio, deformitas,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 28: morbus est habitus cujusque corporis contra naturam, qui usum ejus facit deteriorem, Labeo ap. Gell. 4, 2, 3:

morbi aegrotationesque,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23:

aeger morbo gravi,

id. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

in morbo esse,

to be sick, id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9:

morbo affectum esse,

id. Div. 1, 30, 63:

corporis gravioribus morbis vitae jucunditas impeditur,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 59:

animi valentes morbo tentari non possunt, corpora possunt,

id. Tusc. 4, 14, 31:

affligi,

id. Pis. 35, 85:

urgeri,

id. Fat. 9, 17:

tabescere,

id. N. D. 3, 35, 84:

languere,

Lucr. 6, 1221:

conflictari,

Nep. Dion. 2, 4:

in morbum cadere,

to fall sick, Cic. Tusc. 1, 32, 79:

incidere,

id. Clu. 62, 175:

delabi,

id. Att. 7, 5, 1:

morbum nancisci,

Nep. Att. 21, 1:

morbo consumi,

id. Reg. 2, 1:

perire,

id. ib. 3, 3:

mori,

id. Them. 10, 4:

absumi,

Sall. J. 5, 6:

confici,

id. ib. 9, 4:

opprimi,

Cic. Clu. 7, 22:

homo aeger morbo gravi,

id. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

ex morbo convalescere,

to recover, id. Fam. 13, 29, 4:

a morbo valere,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 26:

morbum depellere,

Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2:

levare,

to alleviate, relieve, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 57:

amplior fit,

becomes more violent, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 50:

adgravescit,

id. ib. 3, 2, 2:

ingravescit,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

comitialis or major,

epilepsy, Cels. 3, 23:

regius,

the jaundice, id. 3, 24: in morbo consumat, a form of imprecation, may he spend it (the money) in sickness, Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2.—

Mental.

Disease, a fault, vice, etc.: animi morbi sunt cupiditates immensae, et inanes, divitiarum, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 59:

morbum et insaniam,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1:

nomen insaniae significat mentis aegrotationem et morbum,

id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9:

hic morbus qui est in re publicā, ingravescet,

id. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

ut, si qui aegrotet, quo morbo Barrus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 30:

maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem,

id. ib. 2, 3, 121:

qui vultu morbum incessuque fatetur,

Juv. 2, 17.—

Grief, sorrow, distress:

quod mulier facere incepit, nisi id efficere perpetrat, Id illi morbo, id illi senio est,

affliction, distress, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12; cf.:

salvere me jubes, quoi tu abiens offers morbum?

id. As. 3, 3, 3.—

Trop., of trees, plants, etc.:

infestantur namque et arbores morbis,

a disease, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 116 al. —

Morbus, personified as a deity, the son of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. praef.; Sen. Herc. Fur. 694; cf. Verg. A. 6, 275; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 323.

morbus, i, m. [Sanscr. mar-, die; Gr. brotos (for mrotos), marainô; cf. morior, marceo], a sickness, disease, disorder, distemper, ailment, illness, malady, of body or mind (class.).

Corporeal:

morbum appellant totius corporis corruptionem: aegrotationem morbum cum imbecillitate: vitium cum partes corporis inter se dissident: ex quo pravitas membrorum, distortio, deformitas,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 13, 28: morbus est habitus cujusque corporis contra naturam, qui usum ejus facit deteriorem, Labeo ap. Gell. 4, 2, 3:

morbi aegrotationesque,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23:

aeger morbo gravi,

id. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

in morbo esse,

to be sick, id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9:

morbo affectum esse,

id. Div. 1, 30, 63:

corporis gravioribus morbis vitae jucunditas impeditur,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 59:

animi valentes morbo tentari non possunt, corpora possunt,

id. Tusc. 4, 14, 31:

affligi,

id. Pis. 35, 85:

urgeri,

id. Fat. 9, 17:

tabescere,

id. N. D. 3, 35, 84:

languere,

Lucr. 6, 1221:

conflictari,

Nep. Dion. 2, 4:

in morbum cadere,

to fall sick, Cic. Tusc. 1, 32, 79:

incidere,

id. Clu. 62, 175:

delabi,

id. Att. 7, 5, 1:

morbum nancisci,

Nep. Att. 21, 1:

morbo consumi,

id. Reg. 2, 1:

perire,

id. ib. 3, 3:

mori,

id. Them. 10, 4:

absumi,

Sall. J. 5, 6:

confici,

id. ib. 9, 4:

opprimi,

Cic. Clu. 7, 22:

homo aeger morbo gravi,

id. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

ex morbo convalescere,

to recover, id. Fam. 13, 29, 4:

a morbo valere,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 26:

morbum depellere,

Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2:

levare,

to alleviate, relieve, Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 57:

amplior fit,

becomes more violent, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 50:

adgravescit,

id. ib. 3, 2, 2:

ingravescit,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

comitialis or major,

epilepsy, Cels. 3, 23:

regius,

the jaundice, id. 3, 24: in morbo consumat, a form of imprecation, may he spend it (the money) in sickness, Sen. Ben. 4, 39, 2.—

Mental.

Disease, a fault, vice, etc.: animi morbi sunt cupiditates immensae, et inanes, divitiarum, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 59:

morbum et insaniam,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 1, § 1:

nomen insaniae significat mentis aegrotationem et morbum,

id. Tusc. 3, 4, 9:

hic morbus qui est in re publicā, ingravescet,

id. Cat. 1, 13, 31:

ut, si qui aegrotet, quo morbo Barrus,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 30:

maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem,

id. ib. 2, 3, 121:

qui vultu morbum incessuque fatetur,

Juv. 2, 17.—

Grief, sorrow, distress:

quod mulier facere incepit, nisi id efficere perpetrat, Id illi morbo, id illi senio est,

affliction, distress, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 12; cf.:

salvere me jubes, quoi tu abiens offers morbum?

id. As. 3, 3, 3.—

Trop., of trees, plants, etc.:

infestantur namque et arbores morbis,

a disease, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 116 al. —

Morbus, personified as a deity, the son of Erebus and Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44; Hyg. Fab. praef.; Sen. Herc. Fur. 694; cf. Verg. A. 6, 275; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 323.

rĕ-lĕvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To lift up, raise (very rare, and almost exclusively poet.; syn.: reficio, recreo, mitigo).

Lit.:

e terra corpus,

Ov. M. 9, 318:

umeros,

id. F. 4, 169:

in cubitum membra,

id. P. 3, 3, 11. —

Trop.: nec sic mea fata premuntur, Ut nequeam relevare caput, [p. 1556] Luc. 3, 268 Corte; so,

caput,

Plin. Ep. 1, 24, 4:

si forte relevet manum suam a nobis,

Vulg. 1 Reg. 6, 5: eos qui oppressi fuerant relevans, id. Job, 12, 21.—

Transf., to make light, to lighten (class.).

Lit.:

epistulam graviorem pellectione,

Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1: vimina curva favi (i. e. exonerare), Cv. R. Am. 186.— Poet.:

sic unquam longā relevere catenā,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 25:

minimo ut relevere labore Utque marem parias,

i. e. may be delivered, id. M. 9, 675. —

Trop., to relieve, free from any evil; or, to alleviate, mitigate, lessen, diminish, assuage, abate the evil itself; to ease, comfort, refresh, console:

videbimur... curā et metu esse relevati, periculum autem residebit... Ut saepe homines aegri morbo gravi... si aquam gelidam biberint, primo relevari videntur... sic hic morbus, qui est in re publicā, relevatus istius poenā, vehementius vivis reliquis ingravescet,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31; cf.:

animum molestiis,

id. ib. 2, 4, 7 (with recreata):

aegrum,

Ov. P. 1, 3, 17:

pectora sicca mero,

id. F. 3, 304:

membra sedili,

id. M. 8, 639:

mens a cura relevata est,

id. Tr. 1, 11, 12; cf.:

publicanos tertiā mercedum parte,

Suet. Caes. 20:

ut me relevares,

might comfort, console me, Cic. Att. 3, 10, 3:

nam et illic animum jam relevaris, quae dolore ac miseria Tabescit,

Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 11:

quia (pupilla) videtur in ceteris litis speciebus relevata fuisse,

i. e. to have been restored, Dig. 4, 4, 29. —

With things as objects: ut cibi satietas et fastidium aut subamara aliquā re relevatur aut dulci mitigatur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 17, 25:

ad relevandos castrenses sumptus,

Suet. Dom. 12:

communem casum misericordiā hominum,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 4; cf.:

casus,

Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 43:

luctus,

id. R. Am. 586:

studium omnium laboremque,

Plin. Pan. 19, 3:

requie laborem,

Ov. M. 15, 16:

aestus,

id. ib. 7, 815; id. A. A. 3, 697; cf.

sitim,

id. M. 6, 354:

famem,

id. ib. 11, 129.