piteous Copy link Outline I. Calling for pityII. Doleful, expressing sadness1. mĭsĕrābĭlis, e2. flēbĭlis, e (full of weeping, tearful)3. lāmentābĭlis, e (very doleful) • piteous: I. Calling for pity: mĭsĕrābĭlis: v. pitiable. II. Doleful, expressing sadness: 1. mĭsĕrābĭlis, e: p. cries, m. voces, Liv. 1, 29, fin.: a voice inclined to a p. tone, inflexa ad m. sonum vox, Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 193. 2. flēbĭlis, e (full of weeping, tearful): a wretched and p. sight, misera et flebilis species, Cic. Ph. 11, 3, 7: v. plaintive. 3. lāmentābĭlis, e (very doleful): to bewail in p. tones, l. voce deplorare, Cic. Tusc. 2, 13, 32. So, elamentabilis, ib. 2, 24, 57. Phr.: to utter p. lamentations, fletus edere graves, Phaedr. 1, 9, 3.