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gĕmĭtus , ūs (archaic
I.gen. sing. gemiti, Plaut. Aul. 4, 9, 11), m. gemo, a sighing, a sigh, a groan, a lamentation, complaint (syn.: planctus, plangor, lamentatio, questus).
I. Lit.: quantum luctum quantumque gemitum, quid lacrimarum quantumque fletum factum audivi, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 3, 17; cf.: “ut urbe tota fletus gemitusque fieret,Cic. Rosc. Am. 9, 24; id. Sest. 31, 68: gemitum trahens, Enn. ap. Non. p. 515, 26 (Trag. v. 102 Vahl.): “clamor, sonus, gemitus,Quint. 7, 2, 46: “gemitus in dolore ... gemitus elamentabilis,Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57: “lacrimabilis,Verg. A. 3, 39: “ingentem tollere,id. ib. 11, 37; cf.: “ingentem dare pectore ab imo,id. ib. 1, 485: “gemitus toto foro,Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 85: “continuus,Quint. 11, 1, 34: “sine gemitu,id. 2, 20, 10: “gemitu,Verg. A. 2, 73.—Plur. (mostly poet.): “gemitus, screatus, tussis, risus abstine,Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 132: “quantos et virorum et mulierum gemitus esse factos (audivi)?Cic. Clu. 68, 192; id. Har. Resp. 18, 39: “gemitus edere,Lucr. 4, 1015; cf.: “extremosque ciet gemitus,Verg. G. 3, 517: “gemitus,id. A. 2, 288; 4, 409; 6, 873; Ov. M. 2, 621: “excitare,Liv. 9, 7, 4: “ad gemitus vulnerum,id. 22, 5, 4; Gell. 1, 26, 7; Vulg. Judic. 2, 18; Psa. 30, 10 al.—
II. Poet. transf.
1. Pain, sorrow, Verg. A. 2, 413; cf. Lucr. 5, 1196.—
2. Of inanimate things, a deep or hoarse sound: “insonuere cavae gemitumque dedere cavernae,Verg. A. 2, 53: “dat tellus gemitum,id. ib. 9, 709: “dat gemitum moles,Sil. 3, 643: “et gemitum ingentem pelagi pulsataque saxa Audimus,Verg. A. 3, 555.—In plur.: “plaga facit gemitus,Ov. M. 12, 487.
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    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 9.24
    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.34.85
    • Cicero, On the Responses of the Haruspices, 18.39
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 68.192
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 31.68
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.487
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.288
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.555
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.413
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.53
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.73
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.39
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.517
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.621
    • Plautus, Aulularia, 4.9
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1015
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1196
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 5
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 2.24
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 20.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, 2.46
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 1.34
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.3.17
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.26.7
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