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|lshtext=<b>maerĕo</b>: (moer-), ēre (maerui, Prisc. 8, p. 817; Vop. [[Carus]], 1, 4;<br /><b>I</b> [[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. [[μῖσος]], [[μισέω]]; Lat. [[miser]]; cf. moestus].<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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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