I.of or belonging to mourning, mourning-.
I. Lit.: “lamentatio,” over the dead, Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 30: “vestis,” mourning apparel, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 45; cf. “cultus,” Tac. A. 13, 32: “cantus,” a dirge, Hor. C. 1, 24, 2: “domus,” a house of mourning, Liv. 3, 32: “genitor,” mourning, sorrowing, Ov. M. 4, 690; so, “pectora,” id. H. 10, 145.— Subst.: lūgū^brĭa , ĭum, n., mourning garments, sable weeds: “lugubria indue,” Ov. M. 11, 669; illa dies veniet, mea qua lugubria ponam. id. Tr. 4, 2, 73: “imposita lugubria numquam exuerunt,” Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 16, 2: “lugubria sumpsi,” Prop. 4 (5), 12, 97.—
II. Transf.
A. That causes mourning, disastrous: “bellum,” Hor. C. 2, 1, 33: “Trojae renascens alite lugubri,” id. ib. 3, 3, 61.—
C. Mean, pitiable: “sagum,” Hor. Epod. 9, 28.—Hence, adv., in two forms: lūgū^bre and lūgū^brĭter , mournfully, dolefully, portentously, plaintively: “cometae Sanguinei lugubre rubent,” Verg. A. 10, 273: “sonitu lugubre minaci Mulciber immugit,” Sil. 12, 140: “lugubriter eiulantes,” App. M. 3, 8, p. 132.
