deflete
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defleo, deflere, deflevi, defletus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
weep (abundantly) for; mourn loss of; express/feel sorrow about; lament/bewail;; cry bitterly; give oneself up to tears; weep much/violently/to exhaustion (L+S);
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...incommodum, non esse. Illud quoque dicamus ei qui deflet ac desiderat in aetate prima raptum: omnes, quantum..." - L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...spei bonae aliquid relinquit, hic autem stulte deflet quae corrigi posse desperat; et uniuersa contemplanti maioris animi..." - L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...numero. Dextra cur patrui uacat? nondum Thyestes liberos deflet suos? et quando tollet? ignibus iam subditis spument aena..." - L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...ipsum nova Romanae iura securis tremere Oceanum. Deflete virum, quo non alius potuit citius discere causas, una tantum..." - G
FRAGMENTA
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...segetes et totum perdidit annum, In simili deflet tristia fata sinu. Funera conciliant miseros, orbique parentes Coniugunt gemitus..." - G
Virgil
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...Flaccum iam adultum, cuius exitum sub nomine Daphnidis deflet. Inter cetera studia medicinae quoque ac maxime mathematicae operam..."