inlacrimor

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illăcrĭmo ( inl-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n., and illăcrĭmor ( inl-), ātus, 1, v. dep. [in-lacrimo], to weep at or over a thing, to bewail, lament (not freq. till after the Aug. period).

Lit.

With dat.:

quid dicam de Socrate? cujus morti illacrimari soleo Platonem legens?

Cic. N. D. 3, 33, 82: perge, aude, nate;

illacrima patris pestibus, id. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 21: casu (i. e. casui),

Nep. Alc. 6, 4: qui meo infelici errori unus illacrimasti, Liv. 40, 56, 6; Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 6; Suet. Vesp. 15.—

With acc.:

ejusque mortem illacrimatum Alexandrum,

Just. 11, 12, 6.—

With quod, Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 13. —

Absol.;

qui (Milo) aspexisse lacertos suos dicitur illacrimansque dixisse, etc.,

Cic. de Sen. 9, 27; Suet. Aug. 66:

sparge, et si paulum potes, illacrimare,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 103:

illacrimasse dicitur gaudio,

Liv. 25, 24, 11; Cels. 2, 6, 6.—

Poet. transf., of things, to weep, i. e. to drip, drop, distil:

et maestum illacrimat templis ebur aeraque sudant,

Verg. G. 1, 480; Col. poët. 10, 25; cf.:

oculi lumen refugiunt et illacrimant,

Cels. 2, 6, 6.