pain (v.) Copy link Outline I. BodilyII. Mentally • pain (v.): I. Bodily: expr. by dŏleo, 2: v. to ache. (Impers. use, mihi dolet [= doleo], it p.s me: archaic.) II. Mentally: expr. by dolore afficere, dolorem alicui facere, etc.: v. to grieve. Phr.: to be p.'d at anything, dolenter aliquid ferre, Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 4: so, to be p.'d to say a thing, dolenter aliquid dicere, Cic. Ph. 8, 7, 22.