awakens solicitude

anxĭus, a, um, adj. [v. ango], distressed, solicitous, uneasy, troubled, anxious (as a permanent state of mind).

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,

In abl.:

gloriā ejus,

Liv. 25, 40:

omine adverso,

Suet. Vit. 8:

venturis,

Luc. 7, 20.—

In gen. (diff. from [p. 135] 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.—

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.—

With ad:

ad eventum alicujus rei,

Luc. 8, 592.—

With in and abl.:

noli anxius esse in divitiis,

Vulg. Eccli. 5, 10.—

With ne and an:

anxius, ne bellum oriatur,

Sall. J. 6, 6:

anxius, an obsequium senatūs an studia plebis reperiret,

Tac. A. 14, 13.—

Transf.

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.—

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.