(verb) : lūgĕo, xi, ctum, 2 (luxti for luxisti, Cat. 66, 21;
* Dep. lugeri, Prisc. 1251), and a. [akin to Gr. λυγρός, λοιγός; Sanscr. root lū, to cut; cf. lues], to mourn, lament, bewail, deplore (syn. ploro).
* Lit.
* Neutr.: luget senatus, maeret equester ordo,Cic. Mil. 8, 20: annum feminis ad lugendum constituere majores,Sen. Ep. 63, 13; id. Cons. ad Helv. 16, 1: hos pro me lugere,Cic. Planc. 42, 101.—Impers. pass.: sei ad pii rogum fili lugetur. etc.,Cat. 39, 4.
* Transf., to be in mourning, to wear mourning apparel (v. luctus): nec lugentibus id facere fas est,Liv. 22, 56: qui luget, abstinere debet a conviviis, ornamentis et albā veste,Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 14: pullo lugentes vellere lanas,fit for mourning,Mart. 14, 157.
* With gen.: lugere formae,Sil. 3, 424.

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