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flēbĭlis , e, adj. fleo.
II. Act.
A. 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.—
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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    • Cicero, Philippics, 11.3.7
    • Cicero, For Plancius, 42.101
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.518
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 123
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.17
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.24
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.162
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    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.64
    • Statius, Thebias, 12
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