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laborious

  • 1 labōriōsus

        labōriōsus adj. with comp. and sup.    [2 labor], full of labor, laborious, toilsome, wearisome, difficult, troublesome: deambulatio, T.: nihil laboriosius: operum laboriosissimum, L.: fabula, hard to enact, T.— Inclined to labor, laborious, industrious: aratores laboriosissimi: cohors Ulixei, H.— Troubled, harassed: quid enim nobis duobus laboriosius?
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    laboriosa, laboriosum ADJ
    laborious, painstaking

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  • 2 laboriosus

    lăbōrĭōsus, a, um, adj. [2. labor], full of labor, laborious.
    I.
    Attended with much labor, laborious, toilsome, wearisome, difficult, troublesome (syn. operosus):

    deambulatio,

    Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 3:

    nihil laboriosius,

    Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19:

    operum longe maximum ac laboriosissimum,

    Liv. 5, 19 fin.: si qua laboriosa est (fabula), ad me curritur, difficult to put on the stage, opp. lenis, Ter. Heaut. prol. 44.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Inclined to labor, laborious, industrious, for the Gr. philoponos (syn.:

    impiger, industrius): homines,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35:

    bos laboriosissimus hominis socius in agricultura,

    Col. 6 praef. § 7.—
    B.
    That undergoes much trouble and hardship, troubled, harassed:

    quid enim nobis duobus laboriosius?

    Cic. Mil. 2, 5; id. Phil. 11, 4, 4.—Hence, adv.: lăbōrĭōsē, laboriously, wearisomely, with difficulty, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 9; Cels. 5, 17, 2; Cat. 38, 1.— Comp., Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31.— Sup.:

    laboriosissime,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 71; Suet. Caes. 43 al.

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  • 3 operōsus

        operōsus adj. with comp.    [opera], full of labor, painstaking, active, busy, industrious, laborious: senectus: vates operose dierum, in regard to, O.—Of a medicine, efficacious, drastic: herbae, O.—Costing trouble, troublesome, toilsome, difficult, elaborate: labor: artes, handicrafts: opus: res, L.: mundi moles, artfully constructed, O.: carmina, H.: sepulcrum operosius, quam quod decem homines effecerint triduo: Divitiae, H.
    * * *
    operosa, operosum ADJ
    painstaking; laborious; elaborate

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  • 4 operosus

    ŏpĕrōsus, a, um, adj. [opera].
    I.
    Taking great pains, painstaking, active, busy, industrious, laborious (class.;

    syn.: laboriosus, industrius): senectus, opp. to languida atque iners,

    Cic. Sen. 8, 26:

    colonus,

    Ov. Nuce, 57:

    cultibus ambae,

    id. Am. 2, 10, 5. — Poet. with Gr. acc.:

    Cynthia non operosa comas (al. comis),

    Prop. 5, 8, 52.— Poet. with gen.:

    vates operose dierum,

    in regard to, Ov. F. 1, 101.— Sup.:

    Syria in hortis operosissima,

    exceedingly industrious in gardening, Plin. 20, 5, 16, § 33.—
    B.
    Transf., of a medicine, active, efficacious, powerful, drastic ( poet.):

    herbae,

    Ov. M. 14, 22.—
    II.
    That costs much trouble, troublesome, toilsome, laborious, difficult, elaborate (syn. difficilis):

    labor operosus et molestus,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59:

    artes,

    handicrafts, id. Off. 2, 5, 17:

    opus,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 1:

    res,

    Liv. 4, 8:

    templa,

    costly, sumptuous, Ov. M. 15, 667:

    moles mundi,

    the artfully constructed fabric of the universe, id. ib. 1, 258:

    castaneae cibo,

    hard to digest, Plin. 15, 23, 25, § 93:

    carmina,

    elaborate, Hor. C. 4, 2, 31.— Comp.:

    ne quis sepulcrum faceret operosius, quam quod decem homines effecerint triduo,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 64:

    divitiae operosiores,

    Hor. C. 3, 1, 48; 3, 12, 5.—Hence, adv.: ŏpĕrōsē.
    A.
    Lit., with great labor or pains, laboriously, carefully (class.):

    nec flat operose,

    Cic. Or. 44, 149: vina condita, Ov F. 5, 269.— Comp.:

    dicemus operosius,

    more precisely, Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 238.—
    B.
    Transf., exactly, accurately (post-Aug.):

    dicemus mox paulo operosius,

    Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 238.

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  • 5 difficilis

        difficilis e, adj. with comp. and sup.    [dis- + facilis], hard, difficult, troublesome, impracticable, laborious, perilous: res, T.: facilia ex difficillimis redigere, Cs.: opus: locus: in locos difficilīs abire, S.: valles, Cs.: oppidum difficili ascensu: transitus, Cs.: aditūs, H.: tempus anni difficillimum, Cs.: difficili rei p. tempore, peril: casus difficilior, S.: difficilioribus usi tempestatibus, Cs: adversas (res) ferre difficile esset: non fuisse difficile cavere, Cs.—Prov.: difficile est, crimen non prodere voltu, O.—With supin. abl.: difficile factu est non probare: quo de genere difficile dictu est.— As subst n.: pati vel difficillima, the greatest hardships: in difficili esse, embarrassed, L.: ex difficili petenda, O.— Hard to manage, obstinate, captious, morose, surly: parens in liberos: Difficilem offendet garrulus, H.: senes: avunculus difficillimā naturā, N.: difficili bile tumet iecur, H.: Penelope procis, H.: precibus, O.: terrae, intractable, V.
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    difficile, difficilior -or -us, difficillimus -a -um ADJ
    difficult; hard; hard to manage, obstinate. intractable; morose

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  • 6 dīligēns

        dīligēns entis, adj. with comp. and sup.    [P. of diligo], industrious, careful, assiduous, attentive, diligent, accurate, scrupulous, faithful: diligentissimi aratores: homo, thrifty: servi: in re hereditariā: in ostentis animadvertendis: diligentior ad classem ornandum: omnis offici diligentissimus: veritatis, N.: equis adsignandis.—Of things, laborious, faithful: relatio consulis: scriptura conquisitio, Ta.
    * * *
    diligentis (gen.), diligentior -or -us, diligentissimus -a -um ADJ
    careful; accurate; thrifty, frugal, diligent, industrious

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  • 7 mīlitia

        mīlitia ae, f    [miles], military service, warfare, war: cogere ad militiam eos, S.: cedat otium militiae: militiam discere, S.: ferre, H.: tolerare, V.: detrectare, O.: militiae vacatio, exemption from military service, Cs.: fraterna, civil war, Tb.: Militiā tali lacessere Teucros, V.: piae Pars sis militiae, share in, O.: militiae honorem, military honors, Iu.: militiā, in war (opp. togā), Iu.: militiae, in war, in the army.—In phrases with domi, at home and abroad, at home and in the army: virtus domi militiaeque cognita: militiae domique, L.: militiae et domi, T.— The soldiery, military: Hic pars militiae, O.: magister militiae, general, L.— A service, laborious employment: urbana respondendi, scribendi, etc.: Haec mea militia est, O.
    * * *
    military service; campaign

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  • 8 conabilis

    conabilis, conabile ADJ
    laborious, difficult

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  • 9 laboriosus

    toilsome, laborious /(persons) industrious, toiling.

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  • 10 arduum

    arduus, a, um, adj. [akin to ARDÔ, arsô = to water, to cherish; aldainô = to make grow; aldêeis = growing; alo, altus, q. v.; 1. ad-oleo, ad-olesco; related to arbor, arbutus as eruthros, Germ. roth, Engl. red, is related to ruber; Ardea was perh. so called from its lofty situation; cf. Arduenna], high, elevated, lofty, steep (syn.: altus, celsus, sublimis).
    I.
    Lit.: Pergama ardua, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2:

    aether,

    Ov. M. 1, 151:

    sidera,

    id. ib. 1, 730:

    cedrus,

    id. Am. 1, 14, 12:

    cervix equi,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 89:

    et campo sese arduus infert (Turnus),

    Verg. A. 9, 53.—Also in prose in Gell.:

    supercilia,

    i. e. proudly elevated, Gell. 4, 1, 1:

    confragosus atque arduus clivis,

    steep, Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 4:

    ascensus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23:

    arduus ac difficilis ascensus,

    Liv. 25, 13:

    ardua et aspera et confragosa via,

    id. 44. 3: via alta atque ardua, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

    mons,

    Ov. M. 1, 316:

    Tmolus,

    id. ib. 11, 150 al.—Hence, subst.: arduum, i, n., a steep place, a steep:

    Ardua dum metuunt, amittunt vera viaï,

    Lucr. 1, 659:

    in ardua montis Ite,

    Ov. M. 8, 692:

    ardua terrarum,

    Verg. A. 5, 695:

    per arduum scandere,

    Hor. C. 2, 19, 21:

    in arduo,

    Tac. A. 2, 47:

    in arduis ponet nidum suum,

    Vulg. Job, 39, 27:

    ardua Alpium,

    Tac. H. 4, 70:

    castellorum,

    id. A. 11, 9:

    ingressi sunt ardua,

    Vulg. Jer. 4, 29. —
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    That is difficult to reach or attain, difficult, laborious, hard, arduous:

    magnum opus omnino et arduum conamur,

    Cic. Or. 10, 33:

    rerum arduarum ac difficilium perpessio,

    id. Inv. 2, 54; so id. Leg. 1, 13:

    id arduum factu erat,

    Liv. 8, 16; Tac. A. 4, 4:

    victoria,

    Ov. M. 14, 453:

    virtus,

    Hor. C. 3, 24, 44:

    nil mortalibus arduum est,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 37.— Subst.:

    nec fuit in arduo societas,

    Tac. A. 12, 15.—
    B.
    Troublesome, unpleasant:

    in primis arduum videtur res gestas scribere,

    Sall. C. 3, 2, upon which Gellius remarks: Arduum Sallustius non pro difficili tantum, sed pro eo quoque ponit, quod Graeci chalepon appellant:

    quod est cum difficile tum molestum quoque et incommodum et intractabile,

    Gell. 4, 15:

    quam arduum onus,

    Tac. A. 1, 11.—
    C.
    Of fortune, difficult, adverse, inauspicious:

    aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem,

    in adversity, Hor. C. 2, 3, 1.
    ► Comp. arduior: iter longius arduiusque erat, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 600 P.— Sup. arduissimus: asperrimo atque arduissimo aditu, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 600 P.; cf.: assiduus, egregius, industrius, perpetuus, and Rudd. I. p. 180, n. 58.— Adv. not used.

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  • 11 arduus

    arduus, a, um, adj. [akin to ARDÔ, arsô = to water, to cherish; aldainô = to make grow; aldêeis = growing; alo, altus, q. v.; 1. ad-oleo, ad-olesco; related to arbor, arbutus as eruthros, Germ. roth, Engl. red, is related to ruber; Ardea was perh. so called from its lofty situation; cf. Arduenna], high, elevated, lofty, steep (syn.: altus, celsus, sublimis).
    I.
    Lit.: Pergama ardua, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2:

    aether,

    Ov. M. 1, 151:

    sidera,

    id. ib. 1, 730:

    cedrus,

    id. Am. 1, 14, 12:

    cervix equi,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 89:

    et campo sese arduus infert (Turnus),

    Verg. A. 9, 53.—Also in prose in Gell.:

    supercilia,

    i. e. proudly elevated, Gell. 4, 1, 1:

    confragosus atque arduus clivis,

    steep, Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 4:

    ascensus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23:

    arduus ac difficilis ascensus,

    Liv. 25, 13:

    ardua et aspera et confragosa via,

    id. 44. 3: via alta atque ardua, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:

    mons,

    Ov. M. 1, 316:

    Tmolus,

    id. ib. 11, 150 al.—Hence, subst.: arduum, i, n., a steep place, a steep:

    Ardua dum metuunt, amittunt vera viaï,

    Lucr. 1, 659:

    in ardua montis Ite,

    Ov. M. 8, 692:

    ardua terrarum,

    Verg. A. 5, 695:

    per arduum scandere,

    Hor. C. 2, 19, 21:

    in arduo,

    Tac. A. 2, 47:

    in arduis ponet nidum suum,

    Vulg. Job, 39, 27:

    ardua Alpium,

    Tac. H. 4, 70:

    castellorum,

    id. A. 11, 9:

    ingressi sunt ardua,

    Vulg. Jer. 4, 29. —
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    That is difficult to reach or attain, difficult, laborious, hard, arduous:

    magnum opus omnino et arduum conamur,

    Cic. Or. 10, 33:

    rerum arduarum ac difficilium perpessio,

    id. Inv. 2, 54; so id. Leg. 1, 13:

    id arduum factu erat,

    Liv. 8, 16; Tac. A. 4, 4:

    victoria,

    Ov. M. 14, 453:

    virtus,

    Hor. C. 3, 24, 44:

    nil mortalibus arduum est,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 37.— Subst.:

    nec fuit in arduo societas,

    Tac. A. 12, 15.—
    B.
    Troublesome, unpleasant:

    in primis arduum videtur res gestas scribere,

    Sall. C. 3, 2, upon which Gellius remarks: Arduum Sallustius non pro difficili tantum, sed pro eo quoque ponit, quod Graeci chalepon appellant:

    quod est cum difficile tum molestum quoque et incommodum et intractabile,

    Gell. 4, 15:

    quam arduum onus,

    Tac. A. 1, 11.—
    C.
    Of fortune, difficult, adverse, inauspicious:

    aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem,

    in adversity, Hor. C. 2, 3, 1.
    ► Comp. arduior: iter longius arduiusque erat, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 600 P.— Sup. arduissimus: asperrimo atque arduissimo aditu, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 600 P.; cf.: assiduus, egregius, industrius, perpetuus, and Rudd. I. p. 180, n. 58.— Adv. not used.

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  • 12 conabilis

    cōnābĭlis, e, adj. [conor], laborious, difficult (late Lat.): conabiles atque laboriosi vomitus, Cael. Aur Acut. 3, 1, 4.

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  • 13 laboratus

    1.
    lăbōrātus, ūs, m. [id.], labor, laboriousness (late Lat.), Ven. v. Rad. 13.
    2.
    lăbōrātus, a, um, adj. [laboro].
    I.
    Labored, attended with labor or difficulty (post-class.):

    laboratior continentia,

    Tert. Verg. Vel. 10.—
    II.
    Laborious, troublesome, miserable, full of hardship (in post-Aug. poets):

    aevum,

    Val. Fl. 5, 255:

    vita,

    Stat. Th. 1, 341.

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  • 14 labosus

    lăbōsus, a, um, adj. [labos for labor], laborious, troublesome: iter labosum, Lucil. ap. Non. 489, 11.

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  • 15 militia

    mīlĭtĭa, ae (-āi, Lucr. 1, 29), f. [id.], military service, warfare, war.
    I.
    Lit.:

    in militiae disciplinam profectus est,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28:

    militiam subterfugere,

    id. Off. 3, 26, 97:

    ferre,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 55:

    tolerare,

    Verg. A. 8, 516:

    munus militiae sustinere,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 18:

    militiae vacatio,

    exemption from military service, id. ib. 6, 14:

    militiae magna scientia,

    Sall. J. 63, 2:

    militiam discere,

    id. C. 7, 4:

    praeclara,

    Vell. 2, 5, 1:

    Pompeii,

    id. 2, 40, 1:

    adversus Graecos,

    Just. 20, 1, 3:

    lentas militias,

    Tib. 1, 3, 82:

    Cimbrica Teutonicaque,

    Vell. 2, 120, 1:

    militiae honorem,

    military honors, Juv. 7, 88.—
    B.
    Esp.
    1.
    Abl. militiā, in war, opp. togā, in peace, Juv. 10, 9.—
    2.
    Gen. militiae, in military service, or on a campaign, in the field; freq. in phrase: domi militiaeque, at home and abroad, at home and with the army:

    quorum virtus fuerat domi militiaeque cognita,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 19, 55; cf.:

    et domi et militiae,

    id. de Or. 3, 33, 134:

    militiae domique,

    Liv. 7, 32:

    militiae et domi,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 49.—Also without domi, Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6; Sall. J. 84, 2; Tac. H. 2, 5.—
    C.
    Trop., of love:

    at confidentia militia illa militatur multo magis quam pondere,

    Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 50;

    so of an inattentive lover: pro infrequente eum mittat militiā domum,

    id. Truc. 2, 1, 19.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Military spirit, courage, bravery:

    virilis militiae uxor,

    Flor. 4, 5.—
    B.
    Concr., the soldiery, military (syn.:

    milites, exercitus, copiae): hic pars militiae, dux erat ille ducum,

    Ov. H. 8, 46:

    Romanae militiae decus,

    Val. Max. 1, 6, 11:

    cum omni militiā interficitur,

    Just. 32, 2, 2; Plin. 4, 14, 27, § 97:

    qua (lex) maxima apud eos vis cogendae militiae erat,

    Liv. 4, 26, 3: magister militiae, general, id. 22, 23, 2:

    caelestis,

    Vulg. Luc. 2, 13.—So trop.:

    militia caeli,

    i. e. the heavenly bodies, Vulg. Act. 7, 42; id. Deut. 17, 3.—
    C.
    A civil service, office, profession, employment, esp. a laborious one:

    hanc urbanam militiam respondendi, scribendi, etc.,

    Cic. Mur. 9, 19:

    haec mea militia est,

    Ov. F. 2, 9.—Of swallows building their nests:

    eaque militia illis cum anno redit semper,

    Plin. 10, 33, 49, § 95.—
    D.
    Any special work of difficulty, requiring a great effort:

    completa est militia ejus,

    Vulg. Isa. 40, 2:

    arma militiae nostrae non carnalia,

    id. 2 Cor. 10, 4:

    bona,

    id. 1 Tim. 1, 18.—
    E.
    Under the emperors (like miles), an office or employment at court, Prud. Cath. 19; Cod. Just. 3, 25.

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  • 16 molitio

    1.
    mōlītĭo, ōnis, f. [molior], a putting in motion, moving, removing; a laborious undertaking, preparation, contrivance (rare but class.): molitio agrorum, a working, ploughing, digging, Col. prooem.:

    terrena,

    id. 11, 2, 98:

    facilis molitio eorum valli erat,

    a tearing out, demolishing, Liv. 33, 5, 6; a building, making, of the creation of the world, Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 19.—In gen., an enterprise, undertaking, Amm. 14, 9, 4.
    2.
    mŏlĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [molo], a grinding (late Lat.), Ambros. Serm. 29.

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