I.a bearing, suffering, enduring: “harum rerum perpessio,” Cic. Rab. Perd. 5, 16: laborum, id. Inv. 2, 54, 163: “rerum arduarum ac difficilium,” id. ib.: “dolorum,” id. Fin. 1, 15, 49: “fortitudinis patientia et perpessio et tolerantia rami sunt,” Sen. Ep. 67, 10: “malae valetudinis et dolorum gravissimorum,” id. ib. 66, 47.
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