călămĭtas (noun F) : cf. in columis.
* 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.
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* In gen., loss, misfortune, mishap, injury, calamity, disaster, ruin, adversity (freq. in class. prose and in iambic verse; excluded from hexameters by the measure): quanta,Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 101: ita eam oppressit calamitas,Ter. Hec. prol. 22 (30): nova,Cic. Agr. 2, 3, 8: videbam, perniciem meam cum magnā calamitate rei publicae esse conjunctam,id. Cat. 1, 5, 11: aliis cau-sam calamitatis attribuere,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 41, § 106: calamitatem capere,id. Div. 1, 16: in calamitate esse,distress,Sall. C. 44, 5: calamitates perferre,Caes. B. G. 3, 19: tolerare,Cic. Att. 3, 14, 2: ferre,Nep. Timol. 4, 1; cf.: calamitates ferre,id. Ham. 1, 3: calamitate prohibere aliquem,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 18: ignominiam et calamitatem in domum referre,id. Off. 1, 39, 138; Phaedr. 1, 3 fin.; cf. id. 3, prol. 40: calamitates publicae,Suet. Calig. 31; Col. 1, 3, 7.
* Transf.: hostium adversus calamitates contendere,against the prostrate enemy,Just. 11, 12, 13.

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