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defectum: the word apparently occurs here first in this sense, and even later is more common either in the absolute use or with an ablative of specification than with an ablative of means; cf. Ov. Ex Pont. 3.4.37his [incitamentis] ego defectus” ; Phaedr. 1.21.3defectus annis et desertus viribus.


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