egetur

ĕgĕo, ŭi, 2 ( part. fut. egitura, Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 24), v. n. [cf. Gr. achên, poor; root ach-, anch, in achos, anchô, etc.; Lat. angustus, [p. 633] angina], to be needy (for syn. cf.: indigeo, careo, vaco).

Prop.

Absol. (so usually in Plaut. and Ter.), to be needy, to be in want, to be poor:

me in divitiis esse agrumque habere, egere illam autem,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 57; cf. id. Most. 1, 3, 73; id. Truc. 2, 1, 12; 4, 2, 32; id. Trin. 2, 2, 49; id. Capt. 3, 4, 49; Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 11; Cic. Rosc. Com. 8 (opp. locupletem esse); Hor. S. 2, 2, 103 (opp. dives); id. Ep. 1, 2, 56; 2, 1, 228 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

amatur atque egetur acriter,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 39.—

To need, want, lack, to be in need of, with the thing needed.

In the abl.:

earum rerum, quibus egeremus, invectio,

Cic. Off. 2, 3 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 2, 5; id. Fam. 10, 16, 2:

omnibus necessariis rebus,

Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4:

copiis,

Cic. Off. 1, 16 fin.:

oculis ad cernendum,

id. N. D. 2, 57, 143:

bibliothecis Graecis,

id. Tusc. 2, 2, 6; cf. id. Div. 2, 2, 5:

medicină,

id. Lael. 3:

nullo,

id. ib. 9, 30:

consilio, opera nostra,

id. ib. 14 fin.:

auxilio,

id. Fam. 2, 17, 16:

sapiens eget nulla re: egere enim necessitatis est,

Sen. Ep. 9 med. (cf. I. a. supra).—Of inanimate subjects:

opus eget exercitatione non parva,

Cic. Lael. 5, 17; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 38; 1, 8, 4; 1, 10, 7 et saep.—

In the gen. (in Cic. dub., v. the foll.):

si pudoris egeas,

Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 187:

tui, admonitricis,

id. Truc. 2, 6, 20; cf. id. Mil. 4, 2, 42; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 67:

auxilii,

Caes. B. G. 6, 11, 4: medicinae (al. medicina; cf.

the preced.),

Cic. Fam. 9, 3 fin.:

medici, curatoris,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 102; cf.

custodis,

id. S. 1, 4, 118:

aeris (opp. locuples mancipiis),

id. Ep. 1, 6, 39:

nullius,

id. ib. 1, 17, 22:

nutricis,

Ov. Tr. 6, 135:

alienae facundiae,

Tac. A. 13, 3 al. —Of inanimate subjects:

nec prosum quicquam nostrae rationis egere,

Lucr. 3, 44; Quint. 5, 14, 5; 2, 16, 13; 3, 8, 63 al.—

In the acc.:

nec quicquam eges,

Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 12; cf. the foll.—

Supplied by inf. pass.:

clariores quam ut indicari egeant, Athenae,

Mel. 2, 3, 4; cf. id. 2, 4, 1.

Sometimes transf.

(For the usual careo.) To be without, to be destitute of, not to have:

C. Macer auctoritate semper eguit,

Cic. Brut. 67, 238:

donis tuis, somne,

Stat. S. 5, 4, 2.—Of inanimate subjects:

res proprio nomine,

Lucr. 3, 134. —

To do without, to bear the want of: si quid est, quod utar, utor; si non est, egeo, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 23, 1.—

Like the Gr. deomai (cf. also the Engl. to want), to desire, wish for:

tui amans abeuntis egeo,

Plaut. As. 3, 3, 1:

plausoris,

Hor. A. P. 154:

tantuli,

id. S. 1, 1, 59; cf. in the abl.:

pane,

id. Ep. 1, 10, 11.—Hence, ĕgens, entis, P. a., needy, necessitous, in want, very poor (class.; cf.:

egenus, indigens, indigus, inops, pauper, mendicus): quocirca (amici) et absentes assunt egentes abundant,

Cic. Lael. 7; Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 1; 2, 3, 4; id. Stich. 2, 2, 7; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 30; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 10; Cic. Clu. 59, 163; id. Fl. 15, 35 et saep.; cf.

opp. locuples,

Caes. B. C. 3, 59, 2; Dig. 22, 5, 3;

opp. abundans,

Cic. Par. 6, 1, 43:

delectus egentium ac perditorum,

Caes. B. G. 7, 4, 2; cf. Sall. C. 31, 1; 18, 4.— Comp.:

nihil rege egentius,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 4.— Sup.:

egestates tot egentissimorum hominum,

Cic. Att. 9, 7, 5; id. Sest. 52, 111; id. Rosc. Am. 8 fin.;

opp. locuples,

Liv. 1, 47.— Adv. does not occur.