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lessus , acc. um (only in
I.acc. sing.), m., a wailing, cry, funeral lamentation: “mulieres genas ne radunto, neve lessum funeris ergo habento,” Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59; “but a false reading for pausam,” Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 18.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Plautus, Trinummus, 4.2
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 2.23
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