Lewis Short
mĭsĕresco, ĕre
* V. inch. n. [misereo].
* To feel pity, have compassion (only poet.): his lacrimis vitam damus et miserescimus ultro,Verg. A. 2, 145: miserescite regis,id. ib. 8, 573: generis miseresce tui,Stat. Th. 1, 280.
* Impers.: miserescit me alicu jus, it distresses me, I feel pity, take compassion (cf. miseret, under misereo, II.): inopis nunc te miserescat mei,Ter. Heaut. 5, 4, 3.—*
* I. q. miserum fieri, to become wretched, miserable: sed quid est homini miseriarum, quo miserescat miser ex animo,Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary