I.want, need, scarcity of any thing (class.; syn.: inopia, egestas).
I. Lit., esp. of want of the necessaries of life; constr. with or (less freq.) without a gen.: “cibi,” Lucr. 5, 1007: “victūs,” Hor. S. 1, 1, 98: “edendi,” Verg. A. 7, 113: “aquarum,” Sall. J. 17, 5: “rerum necessariarum,” id. ib. 23, 2: “frumenti,” Liv. 4, 25. —Absol.: “neque enim est umquam penuria parvi,” he is never in want who requires but little, Lucr. 5, 1119: “penuriam temporum sustinere,” to supply their temporary wants, Col. 9, 14, 17: “in penuriā,” in time of scarcity, Plin. 18, 13, 34, § 130: “afflixit te penuriā,” Vulg. Deut. 8, 3; 28, 48.—Of want of other things: “civium,” Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 88: “magna sapientium civium bonorumque penuria,” Cic. Brut. 1, 2: “cujus generis (amicorum) est magna penuria,” id. Lael. 17, 62: “liberorum,” Sall. J. 22, 2: “mulierum,” Liv. 1, 9: “agri, vectigalium, pecuniae,” Cic. Inv. 2, 39, 115: “argenti,” Liv. 23, 21: “arborum,” Col. 7, 9, 7.—
