misereor
Dictionary entries
- Entry →misereo, miserere, miserui, miseritus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pity, feel pity; show/have mercy/compassion/pity for (w/GEN);; it distresses/grieves me; I am moved to pity, I feel sorry for (w/me + GEN);
sg. pres. pass. ind. 1st - Entry →misereor, misereri, miseritus sum:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pity, feel pity; show/have mercy/compassion/pity for (w/GEN);
sg. pres. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...sectarer, qua ratione diceretur "habeo curam vestri" aut "misereor vestri" et iste casus "vestri" eo in loco quem..."de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...spargitur. Hunc promereor, illi reddo; huic succurro, huius misereor; illum instruo dignum quem non deducat paupertas nec occupatum..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...audacia, aut ubi fabulas etiam antecessura latrocinia didicistis? Misereor mediusfidius vestri; neque enim impune quisquam quod non licuit..."X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...propter hoc quidem venit, ut queratur!' Misereor feminae, cuius invidiae totum facinus ascribitur. maritus sic filium inclusit, tamquam..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...verbis infatuavit? In magnum mehercule vos periculum impulit. Misereor vestri.' Tum miles, 'Non sum' inquit 'tiro Labiene..."