doleo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dŏlĕo, ŭi, ĭtum (doliturus, Liv. 39, 43 fin.; Prop. 1, 15, 27; Verg. A. 11, 732; Hor. Epod. 15, 11; id. S. 1, 2, 112; 1, 10, 89; Ov. M. 9, 257 al.; cf. also under ☞), 2, v. n. and a. [perh. root in Sansc. dar-, dal-, to tear apart; cf. Gr. δέρω, to flay; Ger. zehren, to consume; Eng. tear].

I Corporeally, to feel pain , suffer pain , be in pain , to ache : nequeo caput Tollere, ita dolui, itaque ego nunc doleo, etc., Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 45; id. Aul. 3, 1, 5: doleo ab animo, doleo ab oculis, doleo ab aegritudine, id. Cist. 1, 1, 62: si cor dolet, et si jecur, aut pulmones, aut praecordia, Cato R. R. 157, 7; cf.: pes, oculi, caput, latera, pulmones, Cic. Tusc. 2, 19, 44: caput, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 7; cf.: caput a sole, Plin. 24, 5, 10, § 15: renes, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 21: hirae omnes, id. ib. 23: oculi, id. Most. 4, 2, 10: pes aegri, Lucr. 3, 111: dens, Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 224: uterum, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 10 et saep.: misero nunc malae dolent, id. Am. 1, 1, 252; cf. Ter. Phorm. 1053: non metuo, ne quid mihi doleat, quod ferias, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 54.—Esp., of the pangs of childbirth: Lucina dolentibus Juno dicta puerperis, Cat. 34, 13.—With acc. of part affected (late Lat.): graviter oculos dolui, Front. ad Amic. 16: doluisse te inguina cognosco, Marc. Aur. Ep. ad M. Caes. 5, 19, 34.— Impers. : mihi dolet, quom ego vapulo, Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 44; cf. id. Poen. 1, 1, 22: si stimulos pugnis caedis, manibus plus dolet, id. Truc. 4, 2, 55.

II Mentally.

A Of personal subjects, to grieve for , deplore , lament , be sorry for , be afflicted at or on account of any thing (so most freq. and class.).

α With acc.: meum casum luctumque doluerunt, Cic. Sest. 69, 145; so, casum, id. Vatin. 13, 31; Sall. C. 40, 2: Dionis mortem, Cic. Cael. 10, 24: vicem alicujus, id. Verr. 2, 1, 44; id. Att. 6, 3, 4; 8, 2, 2; 8, 15 fin. ; Tac. H. 1, 29 al.: injurias alicujus, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12 fin. : aliquid, Cic. Tusc. 3, 32 fin. ; id. Fl. 24; Verg. A. 1, 9; Hor. S. 1, 2, 112 et saep. —

β With acc. and inf.: inferiores non dolere (debent), se a suis superari, Cic. Lael. 20; id. Att. 6, 3, 4; Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 5; id. B. C. 1, 64, 2; Suet. Aug. 16 al.; Lucr. 3, 900; Verg. A. 4, 434; Ov. M. 2, 352 et saep. —With simple inf.: vinci, Hor. C. 4, 4, 62. —

γ With abl.: laetari bonis rebus et dolere contrariis, Cic. Lael. 13, 47: qua (epistola) lecta de Atticae febricula valde dolui, id. Att. 12, 1, 2: delicto (opp. gaudere correctione), id. Lael. 24 fin. : laude aliena, id. Fam. 5, 8, 2: clade accepta, Liv. 5, 11: injuriis civitatis suae, id. 29, 21: dolore alicujus, Verg. A. 1, 669: mea virtute, Hor. Epod. 15, 11: laeso Metello, id. S. 2, 1, 67: quibus negatis, id. ib. 1, 1, 75: successu, Ov. M. 6, 130: Hercule deo, id. ib. 9, 257: rapto Ganymede, id. F. 6, 43 et saep.—

δ With de or ex : de Hortensio te certo scio dolere, Cic. Att. 6, 6, 2; Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 7; Ov. M. 7, 831; id. Tr. 4, 10, 84 al.: quo gravius homines ex commutatione rerum doleant, Caes. B. G. 1, 14, 5; cf.: tum ex me doluisti, Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 3; and: EX QVO (sc. filio) NIHIL VNQVAM DOLVIT NISE CVM IS NON FVIT, Inscr. Orell. 4609.—

ε With quod , quia , or si : doluisse se, quod populi Romani beneficium sibi extorqueretur, Caes. B. C. 1, 9, 2; Ov. M. 5, 24; cf. Cic. Brut. 1, 5: doleo, quia doles et angere, Luccei. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 14, 2: doliturus, si placeant spe deterius nostra, Hor. S. 1, 10, 89; cf. Cic. Planc. 1.—

ζ Absol. : ah! nescis quam doleam, Ter. Heaut. 934: et desperant et dolent et novissime oderunt, Quint. 2, 4, 10; 9, 1, 23; 9, 2, 26; Verg. A. 6, 733; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 12 et saep.: pars dolere pro gloria imperi, Sall. J. 39, 1 Kritz.; cf. Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 17.—So, dolentes, the mourners , Ov. M. 10, 142.—

B Of subjects not personal, to pain one (rare and mostly ante-class.).

α With dat.: animus mihi dolet, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 54; Phr. Caput mihi condoluit. Str. Quid mihi futurum'st, quoi duae ancillae dolent, i. e. are a painful subject , id. Truc. 2, 8, 3: dolet illud huic quod, etc., id. Capt. 1, 2, 49; id. Mil. 4, 8, 15; Ter. Eun. 93; id. Ad. 272; Cic. de Or. 1, 53 fin. ; Sall. J. 84, 1.— Impers. , it pains me , I am grieved , I grieve.

α With dat.: CONDISCES (i. e. condiscens = condiscipulus) CVI DOLET PRO AFRICANO, Corp. Inscr. L. 1, 2258 a : mihi dolebit, non tibi, si quid ego stulte fecero, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 84; Ter. Phorm. 162; Caecil. ap. Cic. Cael. 16, 37; cf. prov.: cui dolet meminit, Anglice, the burnt child dreads the fire , Cic. Mur. 20, 42.—

β With acc. personae : frigida Eoo me dolet aura gelu, Prop. 1, 16, 24.—

γ Absol. : dolet (sc. mihi) dictum, Ter. Eun. 430: nec dolent prava, Sen. Tranq. An. 2.—☞ Pass. as deponent : DE QVA NIHIL ALIVD DOLITVS EST (vir) NISI MORTEM, Inscr. Grut. 793, 4, and 794, 2: DOLEATVR, ib. 676, 11.

XV —Hence, dŏlens , entis, P. a., causing pain , painful : nil dolentius, Ov. M. 4, 246.—More freq., adv.: dŏlen-ter , painfully , with pain , with sorrow : dolenter hoc dicam potius quam contumeliose, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 22; id. de Or. 2, 52, 211; id. Or. 38; id. Vatin. 4 fin. ; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 24, 6; Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 4 al.— Comp. , Cic. Sest. 6, 14.— Sup. does not occur.

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