I.gen. plur. difficultatium, Liv. 9, 31, 14; Gell. 14, 2, 3), f. difficilis, difficulty, trouble, distress, poverty, want.
I. In gen. (freq. in good prose in sing. and plur.
(α).
With gen.: “ineundi consilii,” Cic. Rep. 1, 34: “discendi (with labor),” id. Div. 1, 47, 105: “dicendi,” id. de Or. 1, 26, 120: “navigandi,” id. ib. 1, 18, 82; Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.: “belli gerendi,” id. ib. 3, 10: “faciundi pontis,” id. ib. 4, 17, 2 et saep.: “viarum,” id. ib. 7, 56, 2; id. B. C. 1, 70; cf. “loci,” Sall. J. 98, 5; Tac. Agr. 17 fin.: “rerum,” Cic. Div. in Caecil. 12; Sall. C. 57, 2; Suet. Tib. 16; 21: “morbi,” Cels. 3, 1; cf. “urinae,” id. 2, 1 al.: “vecturae,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 82: “summa navium,” id. ib. 2, 5, 20: “rei frumentariae,” Caes. B. G. 7, 17, 3: “annonae,” Suet. Aug. 41; cf. “nummaria,” want. scarcity of money, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 28; Suet. Tib. 48: “domestica,” distressed circumstances, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 14 et saep.—
(β).
Absol.: “ne qua ob eam suspicionem difficultas eveniat,” Plaut. Epid. 2, 2, 105; Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 45: “perspicio quantum in agendo difficultatis et quantum laboris sit habitura (altera pars actionis),” Cic. Clu. 1, 2; “so with labor,” Quint. 11, 1, 68; and: “habere difficultatem,” Cic. Brut. 7; id. Att. 13, 33: “magnam res ad receptum difficultatem afferebat,” Caes. B. C. 3, 51, 6; so with ad: “haec res Caesari difficultatem ad consilium capiendum afferebat,” id. B. G. 7, 10, 1; “and without it,” Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11: “delabi in difficultates,” id. Fat. 17: erat in magnis difficultatibus res, ne, etc., Caes. B. G. 7, 35 et saep.—*
II. In partic. (acc. to difficilis, no. II.), obstinacy, captiousness, moroseness: “arrogantiam pertulit, difficultatem exsorbuit,” Cic. Mur. 9, 19.