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in-commŏdus , a, um, adj.,
I.inconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, unseasonable, troublesome, disagreeable.
I. Adj.
A. Of things (class. and freq.): “iter,Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 1: “res,id. ib. 4, 2, 27: valetudo, Cic. Brut. 34, 130: “colloquium pro re nata non incommodum,id. Att. 14, 6, 1: “ne voce quidem incommodā,Liv. 3, 14, 6: “severitas morum,id. 27, 31, 7: “conflictatio turbae,Quint. 3, 8, 29; 1, 7, 16: “eorum controversiam non incommodum videtur cum utrorumque ratione exponere,Cic. Inv. 1, 34, 57: “naves propugnatoribus incommodae,Liv. 30, 10, 15.—Comp.: “ut actori incommodior esset exhibitio,Dig. 10, 4, 11: incommodioris condicionis homines, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 3, 1. — Sup.: “in rebus ejus incommodissimis,Cic. Clu. 59, 161. —
B. Of persons, troublesome (rare but class.): “aliquid huic responde, commode, ne incommodus nobis sit,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 189 (but not in Bacch. 3, 2, 17; “v. Ritschl ad h. l.): idem facilem et liberalem patrem incommodum esse amanti filio disputat,Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73.—
II. Subst.: incommŏdum , i, n., inconvenience, trouble, disadvantage, detriment, injury, misfortune (freq. and class.): “quom ejus incommodum tam aegre feras,Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 43: “nostro incommodo detrimentoque, si est ita necesse, doleamus,Cic. Brut. 1, 4: “qui locus est talis, ut plus habeat adjumenti quam incommodi,id. de Or. 2, 24, 102: “non modo incommodi nihil ceperunt, sed etiam ... in quaestu sunt versati,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 109: “timet, ne ipse aliquo afficiatur incommodo,id. Off. 1, 7, 24: “accidit repentinum incommodum: tanta enim tempestas cooritur, ut, etc.,Caes. B. C. 1, 48, 1: “ab officio abduci incommodo,Cic. Lael. 2, 8; cf. “ellipt.: nec id incommodo tuo (sc. feceris),id. Att. 12, 47, 1: “quae res magnum nostris attulit incommodum,Caes. B. C. 3, 63, 5: “quid iniquitas loci habeat incommodi,id. B. G. 7, 45, 9: “si quid importetur nobis incommodi,Cic. Off. 2, 5, 18: “ex eo concursu navium magnum esse incommodum acceptum,Caes. B. G. 5, 10 fin.; cf.: “ut acceptum incommodum virtute sarciretur (shortly before: detrimentum acceptum),id. B. C. 3, 73, 4: “reiciendi, deminuendi, devitandive incommodi causa,Cic. Inv. 2, 5, 18: incommodum inter eos (socios) commune est, loss (opp. lucrum), Gai. Inst. 3, 150.—Rarely with gen. rei: “commoveri incommodo valetudinis,Cic. Att. 7, 7, 3; cf. “morbi,id. Mur. 23, 47.—In plur.: “multis incommodis difficultatibusque affectus,id. Div. in Caecil. 3, 8; id. N. D. 1, 9 fin.; id. Lael. 13, 48: “tot incommodis conflictati,Caes. B. G. 5, 35, 5; id. B. C. 3, 10, 6.— With gen.: “corporum,” i. e. diseases, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 162: “pulmonum,id. 28, 7, 21, § 75: “vesicae,id. 27, 12, 101, § 126: “ferre incommoda vitae,Juv. 13, 21. —
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