I.a. [etym. dub.; cf. pluo].
I. To cry out, to cry aloud = clamare: SI PARENTEM PVER VERBERIT. AST OLLE PLORASSIT, and he cry out, Lex. Serv. Tull. ap. Fest. p. 230 Müll.—
II. To wail, lament, to weep aloud.
A. Neutr. (class.; “syn.: lugeo, fleo): ego hercle faciam plorantem illum,” Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 164: “ne plora,” id. Merc. 3, 1, 3; id. Ps. 4, 4, 1: “eam plorare,” Ter. Phorm. prol. 8: “plorando fessus sum,” Cic. Att. 15, 9: date puero panem, ne ploret, Auct. ap. Quint. 6, 1, 47: “lacrimandum est, non plorandum,” Sen. Ep. 63, 1: jubeo te plorare, I bid you howl (in a double sense, alluding to their lachrymose poetry and to the chastisement its authors deserve), Hor. S. 1, 10, 91.—With dat., to or before one: “ille suae (puellae) plorabit sobrius,” Tib. 2, 5, 103: “plorabo tibi,” Vulg. Jer. 48, 32.—
2. Transf., of things: mimus quis melior plorante gulā, a complaining or clamorous appetite, Juv. 6, 158: “at tu, victrix provincia, ploras,” id. 1, 50.—
B. Act., to weep over any thing, to lament, bewail (poet.).
(α).
With acc.: “turpe commissum,” Hor. C. 3, 27, 38: “raptum juvenem,” id. ib. 4, 2, 22: “funera,” Stat. S. 5, 3, 245: “quam multi talia plorent,” Juv. 14, 150; 15, 134: “Rachel plorans filios,” Vulg. Matt. 2, 18; id. Jer. 31, 15.—
(β).
With object-clause: “aquam hercle plorat, quom lavat, profundere,” Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 29: “ploravere, suis non respondere favorem Speratum meritis,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 9: “me tamen obicere incolis Plorares Aquilonibus,” Hor. C. 3, 10, 3 sq.
