afflicto (better adf-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [ad, intensive], to disquiet greatly, to agitate, toss; to shatter, damage, harass, injure, lit. and trop.
I Lit. (rare): naves tempestas adflictabat, Caes. B. G. 4, 29: quod minuente aestu (naves) in vadis adflictarentur, were stranded , id. ib. 3, 12: Batavos, Tac. H. 4, 79.—Far oftener,
II Trop., to trouble , disquiet , vex , torment , distress : adflictari amore, * Lucr. 4, 1151: homines aegri febri jactantur ... deinde multo gravius adflictantur, Cic. Cat. 1, 13; so Suet. Tit. 2: adflictatur res publica, id. Har. Resp. 19: equites equosque adflictare, Tac. H. 3, 19: adflictare ltaliam luxuriā saevitiāque, id. A. 13, 30.—Hence, adflictare se or adflictari aliquā re, to grieve , to be greatly troubled in mind about a thing , to be very anxious or uneasy , to afflict one's self : ne te adflictes, Ter. Eun. 76: cum se Alcibiades adflictaret, Cic. Tusc. 3, 32; 3, 27: de domesticis rebus acerbissime adflictor, id. Att. 11, 1: mulieres adflictare sese, manus supplices ad caelum tendere, Sall. C. 31, 3.