• smart (v.): to feel sharp pain (lit. and fig.): no precise word: perh. the pass. of mordeo, pungo, uro and compds. peruro, aduro, etc., may serve: e. g. s.ing under the lash, funibus perustus, Hor.: to s. with secret grief, dolore occulto morderi, Ov. M. 2, 805. Less precisely expr. by doleo, dolor with verb, etc. (v. painful). Phr: I s. for my folly, ego pretium ob stultitiam fero, Ter. Andr. 3, 5, 4: to do a thing without s.ing for it, impune aliquid facere, Cic. (v. impunity). you would s. for it, ferres infortunium, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 24: I will make him s. for it, hoc non impune fecerit: hoc non impunitum omittam (Georg.).