I.oho! indeed! well! well to be sure! hah! alas! alack! Ag. Ego sum ipsus, quem tu quaeris. Ha. Hem! quid ego audio? Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 86; cf. Ter. And. 3, 1, 4: “hem, Pamphile, optime te mihi offers,” id. ib. 4, 2, 3: Er. Itane Chrysis? hem! My. Nos quidem pol miseras perdidit, Ter. And. 4, 5, 8; cf. id. Eun. 5, 1, 11: “miserum me! quanto haec dixi cum dolore! hem, Postume, tune es, etc.,” Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 45: “occepi mecum cogitare: hem, biduum hic Manendum est soli sine illa,” Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 8: “hem tibi maledictis pro istis,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 39; cf. id. Ps. 1, 2, 22: “hem, quid ais, scelus?” Ter. And. 4, 1, 42; cf.: “audistin', obsecro? hem scelera,” id. ib. 4, 4, 47: hem nos homunculi indignamur, si quis, etc., Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4; Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 7.
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hem (also em , and often confounded in MSS. and edd. with em and en, q. v.), interj., an expression of surprise, in a good or bad sense; of admiration, joy, of grief, indignation, etc. (like the intensive ehem, an expression of joyful surprise),