I.uneasiness of mind, care, disquiet, anxiety, solicitude (class.; used equally in sing. and plur.; “syn.: aegritudo, dolor, anxietas): sollicitudo aegritudo cum cogitatione,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 18: “quibus nunc me esse experior summae sollicitudini,” Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 77: “istaec mihi res sollicitudini'st,” Ter. Phorm. 4, 1, 22: “aliquem afficere curā et sollicitudine,” id. ib. 2, 4, 1: “vita vacua metu, curā, sollicitudine,” Cic. Rep. 3, 16, 26; id. Tusc. 1, 40, 96: “sollicitudo animi,” id. Clu. 18, 51: “sollicitudinem falsam mittere,” Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 3: “sed dices, me ipsum mihi sollicitudinem struere,” Cic. Att. 5, 21, 3: “ne tu me sollicitudine magnā liberaris,” id. ib. 6, 1, 11: “duplex nos afficit sollicitudo,” id. Brut. 97, 332: “tibi sollicitudinem adferre,” id. Fam. 9, 17, 3: “sollicitudinem sustineo,” id. ib. 10, 4, 4: “quaenam sollicitudo vexaret impios sublato suppliciorum metu?” id. Leg. 1, 14, 40: “sollicitudine provinciae urgebamur,” id. Att. 6, 5, 3: “te torquerier omni Sollicitudine districtum,” Hor. S. 2, 8, 68; cf. Sen. Cons. Polyb. 4 (23), 2 et saep.—Plur., Ter. And. 4, 1, 27; Cic. Off. 3, 21, 84; id. Fin. 1, 16, 51; id. Div. 2, 72, 150; id. Att. 1, 18, 2; Hor. C. 1, 18, 4; id. Epod. 13, 10.—Prov.: amor otiosae causa est sollicitudinis, Publ. Syr. v. 34 Rib.—
(β).
With gen. obj.: nuptiarum, Ter. And. 1, 5, 26: “gemmarum,” i. e. care lest they be broken to pieces, Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 25.—
II. Transf., care, forethought, duty, responsibility (late Lat.): “cursūs vehicularis,” Dig. 50, 4, 18: “sollicitudinem cursualem agere, Cod. Th. 6, 29, 7: castella quae sollicitudo pervigil veterum per opportunos saltus erexit,” Amm. 14, 8, 13.