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|lshtext=<b>maestus</b>: (moest-), a, um, adj. [[maereo]], q. v.,<br /><b>I</b> [[full]] of [[sadness]], [[sad]], [[sorrowful]], [[afflicted]], [[dejected]], [[melancholy]] ([[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[quid]] vos maestos tam tristesque esse [[conspicor]]? Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 18: id misera maestast, sibi eorum evenisse inopiam, id. Rud. 2, 3, 67; Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59: cum immolanda [[Iphigenia]] [[tristis]] [[Calchas]] esset, maestior [[Ulixes]], etc., id. Or. 22, 74: [[maestus]] ac [[sordidatus]] [[senex]], id. de Or. 2, 47, 195; id. Fam. 4, 6, 2: [[maestus]] ac [[sollicitus]], Hor. S. 1, 2, 3: maestissimus [[Hector]], Verg. A. 2, 270.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: [[maesto]] et conturbato vultu, Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27: maesta ac lugentia [[castra]], Just. 18, 7: maestam attonitamque videre urbem, Juv. 11, 199: maesta [[manus]], Ov. F. 4, 454: horrida pro maestis lanietur [[pluma]] capillis, id. Am. 2, 6, 5: comae, id. F. 4, 854: [[collum]], id. Tr. 3, 5, 15: [[timor]], Verg. A. 1, 202.—Poet., [[with]] inf.: animam maestam teneri, Stat. Th. 10. 775.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf. ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Like [[tristis]], [[gloomy]], [[severe]] by [[nature]]: [[ille]] neci maestum mittit Oniten, Verg. A. 12, 514 ([[naturaliter]] tristem, severum, quem [[Graeci]] σκυθρωπὸν dicunt ἀγέλαστον, Serv.): tacitā maestissimus irā, Val. Fl. 5, 568: oratores maesti et inculti, [[gloomy]], Tac. Or. 24.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In gen., [[connected]] [[with]] [[mourning]]; containing, causing, or showing [[sadness]]; [[sad]], [[unhappy]], [[unlucky]]: [[vestis]], a [[mourning]] [[garment]], Prop. 3, 4 (4, 5), 13: tubae, id. 4 (5), 11, 9: funera, Ov. F. 6, 660; cf.: ossa parentis Condidimus terrā maestasque sacravimus aras, Verg. A. 5, 48: a laevā maesta volavit [[avis]], the [[bird]] of [[ill]] [[omen]], Ov. Ib. 128: [[venter]], exhausted [[with]] [[hunger]], Lucil. ap. Non. 350, 33 ([[enectus]] [[fame]], Non.).—Hence, adv., in [[two]] forms. *<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> maestē, [[with]] [[sadness]], saaly, [[sorrowfully]]: [[maeste]], [[hilariter]], Auct. Her. 3, 14, 24.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> maestĭter, in a [[way]] to [[indicate]] [[sorrow]]: [[maestiter]] vestitae, Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 6.

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