maereō

maerĕo ( moer-), ēre (maerui, Prisc. 8, p. 817; Vop. Carus, 1, 4; part. gen. plur. maerentūm, Verg. A. 11, 216; dep. collat. form dub., Matius ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 95 Müll., where, for maerebar and mirabar of the MSS., Müller reads maerebat; and Cic. Sest. 39, 84, where, for maerebamini, the best MSS. have maerebatis), v. n. and a. [root mis; Gr. misos, miseô; Lat. miser; cf. moestus].

Neutr., to be sad or mournful, to mourn, grieve, lament (class.; cf.:

doleo, lugeo, angor): cum immolanda Iphigenia tristis Calchas esset, maestior Ulixes, maereret Menelaüs,

Cic. Or. 22, 74: nemo maeret suo incommodo;

dolent fortasse et anguntur,

mourns over his own misfortune, id. Tusc. 1, 13, 30:

cum omnes boni abditi inclusique maererent,

id. Pis. 9 fin.:

vos taciti maerebatis,

id. Sest. 39, 84:

homines alienis bonis maerentes,

id. Balb. 25, 56: qui (amici) tuo dolore maerent, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 6:

maereat haec genero, maereat illa viro,

Tib. 3, 2, 14:

sedatio maerendi,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 65:

intellectumque nihil profici maerendo,

id. ib. § 64.— Impers. pass.:

maeretur, fletur, lamentatur diebus plusculis,

App. M. 4, p. 157, 34.—

Act., to mourn over, bemoan, lament, bewail any thing (class.):

filii mortem,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115; 1, 44, 105:

mortem perditorum civium,

id. Sest. 17, 39:

rei publicae calamitatem,

id. ib. 14, 32:

casum ejusmodi,

id. Fam. 14, 2, 2:

illud maereo,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 10:

talia maerens,

thus lamenting, Ov. M. 1, 664.—

With acc. and inf.:

qui patriam nimium tarde concidere maererent,

Cic. Sest. 11, 25: corpora Graiorum maerebat mandier igni, Matius ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 95 Müll. N. cr. —Hence, maerens ( moer-), entis, P. a., mourning, lamenting, mournful, sad: maerentes, flentes, lacrimantes, commiserantes, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 442 P. (Ann. v. 107 Vahl.):

quis Sullam nisi maerentem, demissum, afflictumque vidit?

Cic. Sull. 26, 74:

hunc cum afflictum, debilitatum, maerentem viderem,

id. de Or. 2, 47, 195:

nunc domo maerens ad rem publicam confugere possum,

id. Fam. 4, 6, 2:

interque maerentes amicos Egregius properaret exsul,

Hor. C. 3, 5, 47:

dictis maerentia pectora mulcet,

Verg. A. 1, 197:

fletus maerens,

mournful lamentation, Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 30.— Sup.: mater maerentissima, Inscr. Mur. 1229, 7.

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maestus ( moest-), a, um, adj. [maereo, q. v.], full of sadness, sad, sorrowful, afflicted, dejected, melancholy (class.).

Lit.:

quid vos maestos tam tristesque esse conspicor?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 18:

id misera maestast, sibi eorum evenisse inopiam,

id. Rud. 2, 3, 67; Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59:

cum immolanda Iphigenia tristis Calchas esset, maestior Ulixes, etc.,

id. Or. 22, 74:

maestus ac sordidatus senex,

id. de Or. 2, 47, 195; id. Fam. 4, 6, 2:

maestus ac sollicitus,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 3:

maestissimus Hector,

Verg. A. 2, 270.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

maesto et conturbato vultu,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27:

maesta ac lugentia castra,

Just. 18, 7:

maestam attonitamque videre urbem,

Juv. 11, 199:

maesta manus,

Ov. F. 4, 454:

horrida pro maestis lanietur pluma capillis,

id. Am. 2, 6, 5:

comae,

id. F. 4, 854:

collum,

id. Tr. 3, 5, 15:

timor,

Verg. A. 1, 202.— Poet., with inf.:

animam maestam teneri,

Stat. Th. 10. 775.—

Transf. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Like tristis, gloomy, severe by nature:

ille neci maestum mittit Oniten,

Verg. A. 12, 514 (naturaliter tristem, severum, quem Graeci skuthrôpon dicunt agelaston, Serv.):

tacitā maestissimus irā,

Val. Fl. 5, 568:

oratores maesti et inculti,

gloomy, Tac. Or. 24.—

In gen., connected with mourning; containing, causing, or showing sadness; sad, unhappy, unlucky:

vestis,

a mourning garment, Prop. 3, 4 (4, 5), 13:

tubae,

id. 4 (5), 11, 9:

funera,

Ov. F. 6, 660; cf.:

ossa parentis Condidimus terrā maestasque sacravimus aras,

Verg. A. 5, 48:

a laevā maesta volavit avis,

the bird of ill omen, Ov. Ib. 128: venter, exhausted with hunger, Lucil. ap. Non. 350, 33 (enectus fame, Non.).—Hence, adv., in two forms.

maestē, with sadness, saaly, sorrowfully:

maeste, hilariter,

Auct. Her. 3, 14, 24.—

maestĭter, in a way to indicate sorrow:

maestiter vestitae,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 6.

mĭser, ĕra, ĕrum, adj. [prob. Sanscr. root mi-; cf. minuo; akin to Gr. misos; Lat. maestus, maereo], wretched, unfortunate, miserable, pitiable, lamentable, etc. (cf.: infelix, calamitosus).

Of persons:

nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

Cic. Part. Or. 17, 57:

homo miser, et infortunatus,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

miser atque infelix,

Cic. Quint. 30, 94:

urgeris multis miser undique curis,

Lucr. 3, 1051:

o multo miserior Dolabella, quam ille, quem tu miserrimum esse voluisti,

Cic. Phil. 11, 4, 8:

miser, infelix, aerumnosus,

id. Par. 2, 1, 16:

miserrimum habere aliquem,

to torment, id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:

miserrimus Fui fugitando,

have exhausted myself with running, am completely tired out, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 7.—With gen.:

miseros ambitionis,

Plin. Pan. 58, 5.—

Of things, afflicting, sad, wretched, melancholy:

miserā ambitione laborare,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 26:

misera orbitas,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84:

misera et calamitosa res,

id. Rosc. Am. 28, 77.—

Sick, ill, indisposed, etc.:

quo morbo misera sum,

suffer, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 39:

homini misero non invideo medicinam,

Petr. 129; cf.:

quid illam miseram animi excrucias?

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 76:

homo animo suo miser,

id. Truc. 2, 7, 36:

miserum esse ex animo,

to be wretched in mind, sick at heart, id. Ep. 4, 1, 1.—

Violent, excessive, extravagant:

amor,

Verg. A. 5, 655:

cultus miser,

with regard to dress, Hor. S. 2, 2, 66.—

Bad, vile, poor, worthless:

carmen,

Verg. E. 3, 27:

remedium,

Cels. 5, 26, 34.—With gen.: morum, Stat. Th. 4, 403:

hominem perditum miserumque,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 28.—

As an exclamation, inserted in the midst of a sentence:

ossa atque pellis sum, misera, macritudine,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 32: miserum! (parenthetically) i. e. what a misfortune! how sad! tum pendere poenas Cecropidae jussi (miserum!) septena quotannis Corpora, Verg. A. 6, 21.—As subst.: mĭsĕ-rum, i, n., a wretched thing, wretchedness:

bonum valetudo, miserum morbus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84 MSS. dub. (Madv. and B. and K. miser).—Hence, adv., in two forms.

mĭsĕrē, wretchedly, miserably; desperately, vehemently, excessively, urgently (class.): est misere scriptum, Pseudole! Ps. O miserrime, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 72:

vivere,

Cic. Fin. 3, 15, 501:

misere amare,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 32:

deperire,

id. Cist. 1, 2, 12:

invidere,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 22:

orare aliquid,

id. Heaut. 2, 3, 124:

discedere quaerens,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 8; cf.:

misere cupis abire,

id. ib. 1, 9, 14:

ut miserius a vobis recipiatur quam ab illo capta est,

Liv. 34, 24, 2:

misere miser,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 21:

misere male,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 10.—

mĭsĕrĭter, wretchedly, lamentably, sadly (ante-class.; poet.): corrumpi, Laber. ap. Non. 517, 2:

alloqui,

Cat. 63, 49; Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P. (Vahl. Enn. p. 180, n. 40).

mĭser, ĕra, ĕrum, adj. [prob. Sanscr. root mi-; cf. minuo; akin to Gr. misos; Lat. maestus, maereo], wretched, unfortunate, miserable, pitiable, lamentable, etc. (cf.: infelix, calamitosus).

Of persons:

nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

Cic. Part. Or. 17, 57:

homo miser, et infortunatus,

Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:

miser atque infelix,

Cic. Quint. 30, 94:

urgeris multis miser undique curis,

Lucr. 3, 1051:

o multo miserior Dolabella, quam ille, quem tu miserrimum esse voluisti,

Cic. Phil. 11, 4, 8:

miser, infelix, aerumnosus,

id. Par. 2, 1, 16:

miserrimum habere aliquem,

to torment, id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:

miserrimus Fui fugitando,

have exhausted myself with running, am completely tired out, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 7.—With gen.:

miseros ambitionis,

Plin. Pan. 58, 5.—

Of things, afflicting, sad, wretched, melancholy:

miserā ambitione laborare,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 26:

misera orbitas,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84:

misera et calamitosa res,

id. Rosc. Am. 28, 77.—

Sick, ill, indisposed, etc.:

quo morbo misera sum,

suffer, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 39:

homini misero non invideo medicinam,

Petr. 129; cf.:

quid illam miseram animi excrucias?

Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 76:

homo animo suo miser,

id. Truc. 2, 7, 36:

miserum esse ex animo,

to be wretched in mind, sick at heart, id. Ep. 4, 1, 1.—

Violent, excessive, extravagant:

amor,

Verg. A. 5, 655:

cultus miser,

with regard to dress, Hor. S. 2, 2, 66.—

Bad, vile, poor, worthless:

carmen,

Verg. E. 3, 27:

remedium,

Cels. 5, 26, 34.—With gen.: morum, Stat. Th. 4, 403:

hominem perditum miserumque,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 28.—

As an exclamation, inserted in the midst of a sentence:

ossa atque pellis sum, misera, macritudine,

Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 32: miserum! (parenthetically) i. e. what a misfortune! how sad! tum pendere poenas Cecropidae jussi (miserum!) septena quotannis Corpora, Verg. A. 6, 21.—As subst.: mĭsĕ-rum, i, n., a wretched thing, wretchedness:

bonum valetudo, miserum morbus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84 MSS. dub. (Madv. and B. and K. miser).—Hence, adv., in two forms.

mĭsĕrē, wretchedly, miserably; desperately, vehemently, excessively, urgently (class.): est misere scriptum, Pseudole! Ps. O miserrime, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 72:

vivere,

Cic. Fin. 3, 15, 501:

misere amare,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 32:

deperire,

id. Cist. 1, 2, 12:

invidere,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 22:

orare aliquid,

id. Heaut. 2, 3, 124:

discedere quaerens,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 8; cf.:

misere cupis abire,

id. ib. 1, 9, 14:

ut miserius a vobis recipiatur quam ab illo capta est,

Liv. 34, 24, 2:

misere miser,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 21:

misere male,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 10.—

mĭsĕrĭter, wretchedly, lamentably, sadly (ante-class.; poet.): corrumpi, Laber. ap. Non. 517, 2:

alloqui,

Cat. 63, 49; Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P. (Vahl. Enn. p. 180, n. 40).

maestus ( moest-), a, um, adj. [maereo, q. v.], full of sadness, sad, sorrowful, afflicted, dejected, melancholy (class.).

Lit.:

quid vos maestos tam tristesque esse conspicor?

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 18:

id misera maestast, sibi eorum evenisse inopiam,

id. Rud. 2, 3, 67; Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59:

cum immolanda Iphigenia tristis Calchas esset, maestior Ulixes, etc.,

id. Or. 22, 74:

maestus ac sordidatus senex,

id. de Or. 2, 47, 195; id. Fam. 4, 6, 2:

maestus ac sollicitus,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 3:

maestissimus Hector,

Verg. A. 2, 270.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

maesto et conturbato vultu,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27:

maesta ac lugentia castra,

Just. 18, 7:

maestam attonitamque videre urbem,

Juv. 11, 199:

maesta manus,

Ov. F. 4, 454:

horrida pro maestis lanietur pluma capillis,

id. Am. 2, 6, 5:

comae,

id. F. 4, 854:

collum,

id. Tr. 3, 5, 15:

timor,

Verg. A. 1, 202.— Poet., with inf.:

animam maestam teneri,

Stat. Th. 10. 775.—

Transf. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Like tristis, gloomy, severe by nature:

ille neci maestum mittit Oniten,

Verg. A. 12, 514 (naturaliter tristem, severum, quem Graeci skuthrôpon dicunt agelaston, Serv.):

tacitā maestissimus irā,

Val. Fl. 5, 568:

oratores maesti et inculti,

gloomy, Tac. Or. 24.—

In gen., connected with mourning; containing, causing, or showing sadness; sad, unhappy, unlucky:

vestis,

a mourning garment, Prop. 3, 4 (4, 5), 13:

tubae,

id. 4 (5), 11, 9:

funera,

Ov. F. 6, 660; cf.:

ossa parentis Condidimus terrā maestasque sacravimus aras,

Verg. A. 5, 48:

a laevā maesta volavit avis,

the bird of ill omen, Ov. Ib. 128: venter, exhausted with hunger, Lucil. ap. Non. 350, 33 (enectus fame, Non.).—Hence, adv., in two forms.

maestē, with sadness, saaly, sorrowfully:

maeste, hilariter,

Auct. Her. 3, 14, 24.—

maestĭter, in a way to indicate sorrow:

maestiter vestitae,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 6.