(adj.adv.) : flēbĭlis, e, adj.fleo.
* Pass., to be wept over, to be lamented, lamentable (class.): ponite ante oculos miseram illam et flebilem speciem,Cic. Phil. 11, 3, 7: o flebiles vigilias!id. Planc. 42, 101: Hector,Ov. Am. 2, 1, 32: Ino,Hor. A. P. 123: flebile principium melior fortuna secuta est,Ov. M. 7, 518.—With dat. pers.: multis ille bonis flebilis occidit, Nulli flebilior, quam tibi, Vergili,Hor. C. 1, 24, 9.
* Act.
* That makes or causes to weep, that brings tears (poet. and rare): cepe, Lucil. ap. Non. 201, 2: ultor,Ov. H. 13, 48: flebile dictu,Sil. 9, 502.
* Weeping, tearful, doleful (class.): gemitus elamentabilis; imbecillus, abjectus, flebilis,Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57: maeror (est) aegritudo flebilis,id. ib. 4, 8, 18; cf.: affectus vel concitati vel flebiles,Quint. 11, 3, 162: vox,id. ib. 64: elegia,Ov. Am. 3, 9, 3: modi,Hor. C. 2, 9, 9: suavitas,Quint. 11, 3, 170: spargebat tepidos flebilis imbre sinus,Ov. Am. 3, 6, 68: sponsa,Hor. C. 4, 2, 21: matrona,App. M. 6, p. 125, 2 Elm.—In neut.: flebile, adverbially: exclusus flebile cantet amans,dolefully, plaintively, sadly,Ov. R. Am. 36: gavisae,Stat. Th. 12, 426; Sil. 7, 648.—Hence, adv.: flēbĭlĭter (acc. to II. B.), mournfully, dolefully: vide, quam non flebiliter respondeat,Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39: lamentari,id. ib. 2, 21, 49: canere,id. ib. 1, 35, 85: gemere,Hor. C. 4, 12, 5.—Comp.: daemones flebilius ululant,Paul. Nol. Carm. 20, 57.

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