quĕrēla | quĕrella (noun F) : or , , queror
* A complaining, complaint (class.).
* Lit.
* Ingen.: intervenit nonnullorum querelis,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 1, § 2: hominum vel admiratio vel querela,id. Lael. 1, 2: inveterata,id. ib. 10, 36: epistula plena querelarum,id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 1: longae,Ov. F. 4, 83: vestrum beneficium nonnullam habet querelam,gives some occasion for complaint,Cic. Fam. 10, 28, 1: his de tot tantisque injuriis,id. Sest. 30, 64: cui sunt inauditae cum Deiotaro querelae tuae?id. Deiot. 3, 9: querela Lucretiae patris ac propinquorum,id. Rep. 2, 25, 46: QVI VIXIT SINE VLLA QVERELA CVM CONIVGE,without any complaint,Inscr. Grut. 480, 5.—With obj.-gen.: frontis tui,Cic. Pis. 1, 1: querela temporum,against the times,id. Fam. 2, 16, 1: aequalium meorum,id. Sen. 3, 7.— With quod: an quod a sociis eorum non abstinuerim, justam querelam habent,Liv. 32, 34, 5.—With obj.clause: falsa est querela, paucissimis hominibus vim percipiendi, quae tradantur, esse concessam,Quint. 1, 1, 1.
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* A plaintive song for lulling children to sleep: longa somnum suadere querela,Stat. Th. 5, 616.
* A plaintive sound, plaintive note, plaint; of animals or instruments. — Of swans: tollunt lugubri voce querellam,Lucr. 4, 546.— Of frogs: et veterem in limo ranae cecinere querellam,Verg. G. 1, 378; cf. id. A. 8, 215.—Of doves, Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 104.— Of the plaintive tones of the tibia: dulcesque querellas, Tibia quas fundit,Lucr. 4, 584; 5, 1384.
* A pain that occasions complaining, a complaint, disease, malady: pulmonis ac viscerum querelas levare,Sen. Q. N. 3, 1, 3; Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 18 (29), 1.