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quĕrēla or quĕrella , ae, f. queror,
I.a complaining, complaint (class.).
I. Lit.
B. In partic., a complaint, accusation (postAug.): “advocati flagitabant, uti judex querelam inspiceret,Petr. 15: “frequentes,Dig. 5, 2, 1: “instituere,to institute, ib. 5, 2, 8; 5, 2, 21; Val. Max. 9, 10, 2. —
II. Transf.
A. A plaintive song for lulling children to sleep: “longa somnum suadere querela,Stat. Th. 5, 616. —
B. A plaintive sound, plaintive note, plaint; of animals or instruments. — “Of swans: tollunt lugubri voce querellam,Lucr. 4, 546.— “Of frogs: et veterem in limo ranae cecinere querellam,Verg. G. 1, 378; cf. id. A. 8, 215.—Of doves, Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 104.— Of the plaintive tones of the tibia: “dulcesque querellas, Tibia quas fundit,Lucr. 4, 584; 5, 1384.—
C. A pain that occasions complaining, a complaint, disease, malady: “pulmonis ac viscerum querelas levare,Sen. Q. N. 3, 1, 3; Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 18 (29), 1.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (21):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 10.28.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 2.16.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 1.2.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 3.8.1
    • Cicero, For King Deiotarius, 3.9
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 1.1
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 30.64
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.215
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.378
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.546
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.584
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.1384
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.104
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 32, 34.5
    • Cicero, De Republica, 2.25
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 3
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 1
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 1.1
    • Statius, Thebias, 5
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 9.10.2
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