Lewis Short
(verb) : plōro, āvi, ātum, 1, and
* A. [etym. dub.; cf. pluo].
* To cry out, to cry aloud = clamare: SI PARENTEM PVER VERBERIT. AST OLLE PLORASSIT, and he cry out, Lex. Serv. Tull. ap. Fest. p. 230 Müll.
* To wail, lament, to weep aloud.
* Neutr. (class.; syn.: lugeo, fleo): ego hercle faciam plorantem illum,Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 164: ne plora,id. Merc. 3, 1, 3; id. Ps. 4, 4, 1: eam plorare,Ter. Phorm. prol. 8: plorando fessus sum,Cic. Att. 15, 9: date puero panem, ne ploret, Auct. ap. Quint. 6, 1, 47: lacrimandum est, non plorandum,Sen. Ep. 63, 1: jubeo te plorare, I bid you howl (in a double sense, alluding to their lachrymose poetry and to the chastisement its authors deserve), Hor. S. 1, 10, 91.—With dat., to or before one: ille suae (puellae) plorabit sobrius,Tib. 2, 5, 103: plorabo tibi,Vulg. Jer. 48, 32.
* Transf., of things: mimus quis melior plorante gulā, a complaining or clamorous appetite, Juv. 6, 158: at tu, victrix provincia, ploras,id. 1, 50.
* Act., to weep over any thing, to lament, bewail (poet.).
* With acc.: turpe commissum,Hor. C. 3, 27, 38: raptum juvenem,id. ib. 4, 2, 22: funera,Stat. S. 5, 3, 245: quam multi talia plorent,Juv. 14, 150; 15, 134: Rachel plorans filios,Vulg. Matt. 2, 18; id. Jer. 31, 15.
* With object-clause: aquam hercle plorat, quom lavat, profundere,Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 29: ploravere, suis non respondere favorem Speratum meritis,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 9: me tamen obicere incolis Plorares Aquilonibus,Hor. C. 3, 10, 3 sq.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary