tristĭtĭa — Lewis & Short
tristĭtĭa, ae, f.id.,
I sadness, mournfulness, sorrow, grief, melancholy, gloominess, dejection (class.; syn. maestitia).
I In gen.
A Of living beings:
tum ad tristitiam, tum ad laetitiam est contorquendus,Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72:
ex summā laetitiā atque lasciviā repente omnes tristitia invasit,Sall. C. 31, 1:
in eādem tristitiā permanere,Caes. B. G. 1, 32: magno metu ac tristitiā sollicitari, Auct. B. Afr. 10: lacrimis ac tristitiā te tradidisti, Luccei. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2:
tu sapiens finire memento Tristitiam,Hor. C. 1, 7, 18:
tristitiam compescere,Ov. M. 9, 397:
esse aliquam cognatam tristitiae voluptatem,Sen. Ep. 99, 25:
(vino) tristitia et cura hebetatur,Plin. 23, 1, 22, § 38:
tristitiam animi resolvi,id. 24, 6, 15, § 24:
subitā tristitiā implicatis militum animis,Val. Max. 1, 6, 12:
cum tristitiā et maerore in vitā remanere,id. 2, 6, 14:
tristitiam ad ultimam perductus,Petr. 24.— Trop.:
sol recedens quasi tristitiā quādam contrahit terram,Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102.—
B Of things:
haec tristitia temporum,this sad state of the times, Cic. Att. 12, 40, 3:
caeli,Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 13:
indurata soli,id. 18, 21, 50, § 184:
aspectus,id. 9, 9, 11, § 34:
lenitate verbi rei tristitiam mitigare,hardness, harshness, Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37.—
II In partic., of demeanor, moroseness, sourness, gloominess, harshness, sternness, severity, etc. (syn. severitas):
an nova tristitiae causa puella tuae?Prop. 1, 18, 10:
simque ego tristitiae causa modusque tuae,Ov. H. 3, 90:
(risus) tristitiam ac severitatem mitigat, relaxat,Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236; cf. id. Lael. 18, 66:
illorum (philosophorum) tristitiam atque asperitatem fugiens,id. Fin. 4, 28, 79:
quod ille vos tristitiā vultuque deceperit,id. Prov. Cons. 5, 12;
so Quint. Inst. prooem. § 15: non conveniant barbae illi atque tristitiae,id. ib. 11, 1, 34; Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 7; 8, 21, 1; Suet. Ner. 23; Sil. 8, 612.