I.a mourning, sadness, grief, sorrow, lamentation, whether secret or open (class.): “maeror est aegritudo flebilis,” Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 18: maerorem minui; “dolorem nec potui, nec, si possem, vellem,” id. Att. 12, 28, 2; id. Sest. 31, 68: “maerore se conficere,” id. Tusc. 3, 12, 26: “maeror funeris,” id. Lael. 3, 11: “orationis,” id. de Or. 2, 47, 196: “clausi in tenebris cum maerore et luctu,” Sall. J. 16: “esse in maerore,” Ter. And. 4, 2, 10: “jacere in maerore,” Cic. Att. 10, 4, 6: “versari in maerore,” id. Fam. 5, 2, 2: “maerore macerari,” Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 30: “meus me maeror lacerat et conficit,” Cic. Att. 3, 8, 2: “maerore consenui,” Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 62: “maeroris tabe confecti,” Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 33: “deponere maerorem atque luctum,” Cic. Phil. 14, 13, 34: “a maerore recreari,” id. Att. 12, 14, 3: “perpetuo maerore senescere,” Juv. 10, 245.—In plur.: “meorum maerorum atque amorum summam edictavi tibi,” Plaut. Ep. 1, 2, 2: “Pol maerores mi antevortunt gaudiis,” id. Capt. 4, 2, 60: mibi maerores (dabo), illi luctum, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 25, 65 (Trag. Rel. v. 309 Vahl.): “accedunt aegritudines, molestiae, maerores, qui exedunt animos,” Cic. Fin. 1, 18, 59.
maeror (moer- ), ōris, m. maereo,