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plango , nxi, nctum, 3, v. a. from the root ΠΛΑΓ, πλήσσω; cf. Lat. plāga,
I.to strike, beat, esp. with a noise.
I. In gen. (poet.; cf. “plaudo): fluctus plangentes saxa,Lucr. 2, 1155; 6, 115: “moribundo vertice terram,Ov. M. 12, 118: “humum,id. H. 16, 334: “quanto planguntur litora fluctu!id. ib. 19, 121: “tympana palmis,Cat. 64, 261: “nunc (Boreas) ipsas alis planget stridentibus Alpes,Sil. 1, 588.—Pass., of a bird when caught: “plangitur,beats with its wings, Ov. M. 11, 75.—
II. In partic., to beat the breast, head, etc., as a sign of grief (class.): “qui multis inspectantibus caput feriebas, femina plangebas, Cic. aer. alien. Mil. Fragm. 2, 4 (t. 11, p. 32 B. and K.): laniataque pectora plangens,Ov. M. 6, 248: “femur maerenti dextrā,id. ib. 11, 81: “lacertos,id. ib. 9, 636: “pectus,Petr. 111.—Pass. (= κόπτεσθαι): “scissaeque capillos Planguntur matres Calydonides Eveninae,beat themselves for agony, Ov. M. 8, 526.—
B. Transf., to lament aloud, wring the hands; with aliquem or aliquid, to bewail a person or thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “planxere sorores Naïdes ... Planxere et Dryades: plangentibus absonat Echo,Ov. M. 3, 505: “ab omni plangitur arce,Stat. Th. 11, 417: “plangentia agmina,Verg. A. 11, 145: “plangentium gemitus,Just. 19, 2 fin.: “modo Sporum hortabatur ut lamentari ac plangere inciperet,Suet. Ner. 49; id. Oth. 8: “plangentis populi derisor,Juv. 6, 534.—With an object: “tendit palmas, ceu sit planctura relictam Andromedam,Caes. Germ. Arat. 198; Val. Fl. 3, 297: “Memphiten bovem (i. e. Apim),Tib. 1, 8, 27 (7, 28): “damna,Stat. Th. 11, 117: “malum,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 159; Vulg. Judic. 11, 37.—Pass.: “virtutes quas neque lugeri neque plangi fas est,Tac. Agr. 46: “majore tumultu Planguntur nummi quam funera,Juv. 13, 131.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.75
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.118
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.526
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    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.145
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 46
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.1155
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.115
    • Suetonius, Nero, 49
    • Suetonius, Otho, 8
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.297
    • Statius, Thebias, 11
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