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călămĭtas , ātis, f. cf. in columis.
I. Lit., loss, injury, damage, mischief, harm: sed ecca ipsa egreditur, nostri fundi calamitas (Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 34). Proprie calamitatem rustici grandinem dicunt, Don.; cf. the same on Ter Heaut. 2, 4, 15: robigo genus est vitii, quo culmi pereunt, quod a rusticanis calamitas dicitur, Serv ad Verg. G. 1, 151: postquam calamitas plures annos arvas calvitur, Pac. ap. Non. p. 192, 30; Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 34; id. Capt. 4, 3, 4: “non ut legatus populi Romani, sed ut quaedam calamitas pervadere videretur,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 44 (cf. calamitosus, I A.): “in calamitate fructuum,in the failure, id. ib. 2, 3, 98, § “227: gregem afficere magnā calamitate,Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 27.—
II. Trop.
B. In the histt. esp., the misfortunes of war, disaster, defeat: magnam inde calamitatem pulsos accepisse; quibus proeliis calamitatibusque fractos, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 31: “magna clades atque calamitas rempublicam oppressisset,Sall. C. 39, 4: “accipere,Nep. Con. 1, 3: “accidit illa calamitas apud Leuctra,id. Ages. 6, 1: “calamitates belli ferre,id. Hann. 1, 3: “calamitatem inferre alicui,Caes. B. G. 1, 12.—Hence opp. to victoria, Suet. Caes. 60.—
III. Transf.: “hostium adversus calamitates contendere,against the prostrate enemy, Just. 11, 12, 13.
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