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mĭser , ĕra, ĕrum, adj. prob. Sanscr. root mi-; cf. minuo; akin to Gr. μῖσος; Lat. maestus, maereo,
I.wretched, unfortunate, miserable, pitiable, lamentable, etc. (cf.: infelix, calamitosus).
1. Of persons: “nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,Cic. Part. Or. 17, 57: “homo miser, et infortunatus,Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20: “miser atque infelix,Cic. Quint. 30, 94: “urgeris multis miser undique curis,Lucr. 3, 1051: “o multo miserior Dolabella, quam ille, quem tu miserrimum esse voluisti,Cic. Phil. 11, 4, 8: “miser, infelix, aerumnosus,id. Par. 2, 1, 16: “miserrimum habere aliquem,to torment, id. Fam. 14, 7, 1: “miserrimus Fui fugitando,have exhausted myself with running, am completely tired out, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 7.—With gen.: “miseros ambitionis,Plin. Pan. 58, 5.—
2. Of things, afflicting, sad, wretched, melancholy: “miserā ambitione laborare,Hor. S. 1, 4, 26: “misera orbitas,Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: “misera et calamitosa res,id. Rosc. Am. 28, 77.—
3. Sick, ill, indisposed, etc.: “quo morbo misera sum,suffer, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 39: “homini misero non invideo medicinam,Petr. 129; cf.: “quid illam miseram animi excrucias?Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 76: “homo animo suo miser,id. Truc. 2, 7, 36: “miserum esse ex animo,to be wretched in mind, sick at heart, id. Ep. 4, 1, 1.—
4. Violent, excessive, extravagant: “amor,Verg. A. 5, 655: “cultus miser,with regard to dress, Hor. S. 2, 2, 66.—
5. Bad, vile, poor, worthless: “carmen,Verg. E. 3, 27: “remedium,Cels. 5, 26, 34.—With gen.: morum, Stat. Th. 4, 403: “hominem perditum miserumque,Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 28.—
6. As an exclamation, inserted in the midst of a sentence: “ossa atque pellis sum, misera, macritudine,Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 32: miserum! (parenthetically) i. e. what a misfortune! how sad! tum pendere poenas Cecropidae jussi (miserum!) septena quotannis Corpora, Verg. A. 6, 21.—As subst.: mĭsĕ-rum , i, n., a wretched thing, wretchedness: “bonum valetudo, miserum morbus,Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84 MSS. dub. (Madv. and B. and K. miser).—Hence, adv., in two forms.
1. mĭsĕrē , wretchedly, miserably; desperately, vehemently, excessively, urgently (class.): est misere scriptum, Pseudole! Ps. O miserrime, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 72: “vivere,Cic. Fin. 3, 15, 501: “misere amare,Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 32: “deperire,id. Cist. 1, 2, 12: “invidere,Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 22: “orare aliquid,id. Heaut. 2, 3, 124: “discedere quaerens,Hor. S. 1, 9, 8; cf.: “misere cupis abire,id. ib. 1, 9, 14: “ut miserius a vobis recipiatur quam ab illo capta est,Liv. 34, 24, 2: “misere miser,Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 21: “misere male,id. Bacch. 4, 9, 10.—
2. mĭsĕrĭter , wretchedly, lamentably, sadly (ante-class.; poet.): corrumpi, Laber. ap. Non. 517, 2: “alloqui,Cat. 63, 49; Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P. (Vahl. Enn. p. 180, n. 40).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (26):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 14.7.1
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 28.77
    • Cicero, Philippics, 11.4.8
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 1.2
    • Plautus, Cistellaria, 4.2
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 1.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.655
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.21
    • Horace, Satires, 1.4.26
    • Horace, Satires, 1.9.8
    • Horace, Satires, 2.2.66
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.9
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 5.1
    • Plautus, Captivi, 1.2
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 4.1
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 4.2
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 4.6
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 2.6
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 2.7
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.1051
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 5.26
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 34, 24.2
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 3.15
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.28
    • Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum, 2
    • Cicero, Partitiones Oratoriae, 17.57
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