Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.worthy of pity, pitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad (class.): “nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,” Cic. Part. Or. 17, 57: “fiet ultro miserabilis,” Quint. 11, 1, 64; 9, 4, 133: sisque miser semper; “nec sis miserabilis ulli, Ov. lb. 117: Irus,” Mart. 6, 77, 1: “corpus,” Ov. H. 21, 213: “voces,” plaintive, sad, Liv. 1, 29: “vox,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 63, § 163: “aspectus,” id. Phil. 2, 29, 73: “caedes,” Liv. 1, 59: “elegi,” mournful, Hor. C. 1, 33, 2: “insania,” Aug. Conf. 3, 2, 1.—Comp.: “miserabilior causa mortis,” Liv. 1, 59: mĭsĕrā-bĭlē , adv., for miserabiliter: “miserabile caesis insultare,” Verg. A. 12, 338: “miserabile longum,” Juv. 6, 65.—Hence, adv.: mĭ-sĕrābĭlĭter , pitiably, lamentably, in a way to excite pity, mournfully, sadly, miserably (class.): “emori,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 96: “scripta epistola,” id. Att. 10, 9, 2: “laudare,” to laud pathetically, id. ib. 14, 10, 1: “dicere tristia,” Quint. 4, 2, 120: “perire,” Val. Max. 2, 6, 11.—Comp.: “hac facie miserabilior Pollio,” Juv. 9, 6: miserabilius dicere, Sen. Excerpt. Controv. praef. 4.