mourn Copy link Outline 1. lūgeo, xi, ctum, 2 (both trans. and intrans.)2. squāleo, 2 (to wear soiled clothes in token of mourning)3. moereo, 2 (to feel sorrow, and display it in the countenance, etc.)4. dŏleo, 2 • mourn: 1. lūgeo, xi, ctum, 2 (both trans. and intrans.): the senate m.s, l. senatus, Cic. Mil. 8, 20: to m. any one's death, mortem alicujus l., id. Ph. 12, 10, 25: also foll. by acc. and inf.: he m.s to think that the city has been snatched out of his jaws, urbem ereptam esse ex suis faucibus luget, id. Cat. 2, 1, fin. Often = to be in mourning: v. mourning, subs. 2. squāleo, 2 (to wear soiled clothes in token of mourning): cf. Cic. Mil. 8, 20, squalent municipia, i. e. they are in mourning. 3. moereo, 2 (to feel sorrow, and display it in the countenance, etc.): both trans. and intrans.: when all the good m.'d in secresy and retirement, quum omnes boni abditi inclusique moererent, Cic. in Pis. 9, 21: to m. over the death of a son, filii mortem m., id. Tusc. 1, 48, 115: also foll. by acc. and inf., Cic. Sext. 11, 25. (N.B.--Moereo points more to deep-felt grief; lugeo, to a certain recognized and formal expression of sorrow.) 4. dŏleo, 2: v. to grieve.
MOURN Copy link • MOURNlugere; in luctu esse squalere; in luctu et squalore esse (with reference to Roman customs): (☞ the degrees of mourning are thus stated by Cic., luget senatus; maeret equester ordo; tota civitas confecta senio est; squalent municipia, Mil., 8, 20); maerere aliqua re or aliquid, is to feel inward grief, which displays itself on the countenance and by gestures; lugere, so to mourn as to adopt the conventional signs or emblems of mourning.