stridentibus+alis+sil

plango, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a. [from the root PLAG, plêssô; cf. Lat. plāga], to strike, beat, esp. with a noise.

In gen. ( poet.; cf.

plaudo): fluctus plangentes saxa,

Lucr. 2, 1155; 6, 115:

moribundo vertice terram,

Ov. M. 12, 118:

humum,

id. H. 16, 334:

quanto planguntur litora fluctu!

id. ib. 19, 121:

tympana palmis,

Cat. 64, 261:

nunc (Boreas) ipsas alis planget stridentibus Alpes,

Sil. 1, 588.— Pass., of a bird when caught:

plangitur,

beats with its wings, Ov. M. 11, 75.—

In partic., to beat the breast, head, etc., as a sign of grief (class.):

qui multis inspectantibus caput feriebas, femina plangebas, Cic. aer. alien. Mil. Fragm. 2, 4 (t. 11, p. 32 B. and K.): laniataque pectora plangens,

Ov. M. 6, 248:

femur maerenti dextrā,

id. ib. 11, 81:

lacertos,

id. ib. 9, 636:

pectus,

Petr. 111.— Pass. (= koptesthai):

scissaeque capillos Planguntur matres Calydonides Eveninae,

beat themselves for agony, Ov. M. 8, 526.—

Transf., to lament aloud, wring the hands; with aliquem or aliquid, to bewail a person or thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

planxere sorores Naïdes... Planxere et Dryades: plangentibus absonat Echo,

Ov. M. 3, 505:

ab omni plangitur arce,

Stat. Th. 11, 417:

plangentia agmina,

Verg. A. 11, 145:

plangentium gemitus,

Just. 19, 2 fin.:

modo Sporum hortabatur ut lamentari ac plangere inciperet,

Suet. Ner. 49; id. Oth. 8:

plangentis populi derisor,

Juv. 6, 534.—With an object:

tendit palmas, ceu sit planctura relictam Andromedam,

Caes. Germ. Arat. 198; Val. Fl. 3, 297:

Memphiten bovem (i. e. Apim),

Tib. 1, 8, 27 (7, 28):

damna,

Stat. Th. 11, 117:

malum,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 159; Vulg. Judic. 11, 37.— Pass.:

virtutes quas neque lugeri neque plangi fas est,

Tac. Agr. 46:

majore tumultu Planguntur nummi quam funera,

Juv. 13, 131.