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querulus
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Lewis Short
(adjective) : quĕrŭlus, a, um, queror.
* Lit., full of complaints, complaining, querulous (mostly poet.; not in Cic.): (senex) difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti,Hor. A. P. 173: ululatus,Ov. H. 5, 73: dolor,id. Tr. 3, 8, 32: vox,id. A. A. 2, 308: fastus,Mart. 12, 75, 7: calamitas,Curt. 5, 5, 12: libelli rusticorum,Plin. Ep. 9, 15, 1: nec querulus essem,id. Pan. 4, 9, 21.
* Poet., transf., of animals and things, softly complaining, uttering a plaintive sound, murmuring, cooing, warbling, chirping, etc.: querulae cicadae,Verg. G. 3, 328; cf.: nidus volucrum,Ov. Med. Fac. 77: rana,Col. 10, 12: capella,Mart. 7, 31, 3: fetus suis,Petr. 133: chorda,Ov. Am. 2, 4, 27: tibia,Hor. C. 3, 7, 30: tuba,Prop. 4 (5), 3, 20.
* Lit., full of complaints, complaining, querulous (mostly poet.; not in Cic.): (senex) difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti,Hor. A. P. 173: ululatus,Ov. H. 5, 73: dolor,id. Tr. 3, 8, 32: vox,id. A. A. 2, 308: fastus,Mart. 12, 75, 7: calamitas,Curt. 5, 5, 12: libelli rusticorum,Plin. Ep. 9, 15, 1: nec querulus essem,id. Pan. 4, 9, 21.
* Poet., transf., of animals and things, softly complaining, uttering a plaintive sound, murmuring, cooing, warbling, chirping, etc.: querulae cicadae,Verg. G. 3, 328; cf.: nidus volucrum,Ov. Med. Fac. 77: rana,Col. 10, 12: capella,Mart. 7, 31, 3: fetus suis,Petr. 133: chorda,Ov. Am. 2, 4, 27: tibia,Hor. C. 3, 7, 30: tuba,Prop. 4 (5), 3, 20.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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