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
- A
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...sectarer, qua ratione diceretur "habeo curam vestri" aut "misereor vestri" et iste casus "vestri" eo in loco quem..." - L
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..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...audacia, aut ubi fabulas etiam antecessura latrocinia didicistis? Misereor mediusfidius vestri; neque enim impune quisquam quod non licuit..." - M
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..." - G
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..."