(verb) : dē-plōro, āvi, ātum, and
* A.
* Neutr., to weep bitterly, to moan, wail, lament, complain.
* Prop. (repeatedly in Cic.; elsewh. not so used): afflictus et jacens et lamentabili voce deplorans,Cic. Tusc. 2, 13 fin.: de suis incommodis,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 27; so, de aliqua re,id. ib. 2, 3, 18, § 45 (with conqueri); id. Sest. 6, 14.
* Act., to weep for bitterly, bewail, lament, deplore.
* Prop.: si ad scopulos haec conqueri ac deplorare vellem,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67: damnationem illam,id. Clu. 24, 65: nomen reipublicae,id. Cat. 4, 2 fin. (with lamentari); id. de Sen. 23, 84; id. Tusc. 5, 39, 115: quae nostri aequales deplorare solebant, quod, etc.,id. de Sen. 3, 7; Ov. M. 5, 63: ante omnes deplorati erant equites,Liv. 4, 40 init. et saep.: quae de altero deplorentur,Cic. de Or. 2, 52, 211; cf.: multa de Gnaeo deplorabo,id. Att. 9, 18.
* Since the Aug. per., meton. (effectus pro causa, to weep for as lost, i. e.), to regard as lost, to give up: suam quisque spem, sua consilia, communibus deploratis exsequentes,Liv. 5, 40, 6: deploratur in perpetuum libertas,id. 3, 38, 2: agros,id. 41, 6: paene Romanum nomen,id. 9, 7: diem,Quint. 10, 3, 128: exitum,Flor. 2, 18, 15: deplorata spes est,Liv. 26, 12; cf. vota (coloni),Ov. M. 1, 272: Jason a medicis,Plin. 7, 50, 51, § 166 al.
* Transf., of the disease, hopeless, incurable: aurium vitia,Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 135.

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