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|lshtext=<b>flēbĭlis</b>: e, adj. [[fleo]].<br /><b>I</b> Pass., to be wept [[over]], to be lamented, [[lamentable]] ([[class]].): ponite [[ante]] oculos miseram illam et flebilem speciem, Cic. Phil. 11, 3, 7: o flebiles vigilias! id. Planc. 42, 101: [[Hector]], Ov. Am. 2, 1, 32: [[Ino]], Hor. A. P. 123: flebile [[principium]] [[melior]] [[fortuna]] secuta est, Ov. M. 7, 518.—With dat. pers.: multis [[ille]] bonis [[flebilis]] occidit, Nulli flebilior, [[quam]] [[tibi]], Vergili, Hor. C. 1, 24, 9.—<br /><b>II</b> Act.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> That makes or causes to [[weep]], [[that]] brings tears ([[poet]]. and [[rare]]): cepe, Lucil. ap. Non. 201, 2: [[ultor]], Ov. H. 13, 48: flebile dictu, Sil. 9, 502.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Weeping, [[tearful]], [[doleful]] ([[class]].): [[gemitus]] [[elamentabilis]]; [[imbecillus]], abjectus, [[flebilis]], Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57: [[maeror]] (est) [[aegritudo]] [[flebilis]], id. ib. 4, 8, 18; cf.: [[affectus]] vel concitati vel flebiles, Quint. 11, 3, 162: vox, id. ib. 64: [[elegia]], Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3: modi, Hor. C. 2, 9, 9: [[suavitas]], Quint. 11, 3, 170: spargebat tepidos [[flebilis]] imbre [[sinus]], Ov. Am. 3, 6, 68: [[sponsa]], Hor. C. 4, 2, 21: [[matrona]], App. M. 6, p. 125, 2 Elm.—In neut.: flebile, adverbially: [[exclusus]] flebile cantet [[amans]], [[dolefully]], [[plaintively]], [[sadly]], Ov. R. Am. 36: gavisae, Stat. Th. 12, 426; Sil. 7, 648.—Hence, adv.: flēbĭlĭter (acc. to II. B.), [[mournfully]], [[dolefully]]: vide, [[quam]] non flebiliter respondeat, Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39: lamentari, id. ib. 2, 21, 49: canere, id. ib. 1, 35, 85: gemere, Hor. C. 4, 12, 5.—Comp.: daemones flebilius ululant, Paul. Nol. Carm. 20, 57.

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