Lewis Short
(verb) : dē-flĕo, ēvi, ētum, 2, and n.
* Act.
* To weep over a person or thing; to lament, deplore, bewail (for syn. cf.: deploro, ejulo, ploro, lacrimo, lamentor, fleo —class.): te cinefactum deflevimus,Lucr. 3, 907: Numam,Ov. M. 15, 487: nuptam (Eurydicen),id. ib. 10, 12: inter nos impendentes casus deflevimus,Cic. Brut. 96, 329: illud initium civilis belli, Asinius Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31: eversionem civitatis,Quint. 3, 8, 12: aliena mala,id. 6, 1, 26 et saep.: Crassi mors a multis saepe defleta,Cic. de Or. 3, 3; cf. id. Phil. 13, 5; Verg. A. 6, 220 al.: in deflenda nece,Quint. 11, 3, 8 et saep. —Absol.: dum assident, dum deflent,Tac. A. 16, 13: in amici sinu,Plin. Ep. 8, 16, 5.
* Neutr., to weep much or violently, weep to exhaustion (very rare): gravibus cogor deflere querelis,Prop. 1, 16, 13; Justin. 18, 4, 13; App. M. 4 fin.
* Oculos, to dull with weeping, App. M. 5, p. 161, 36.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary