Lewis Short
questus (noun M) : queror
* A complaining, complaint, plaint (class.).
* Lit.
* In gen., Cic. Quint. 30, 94: caelum questibus implet,Verg. A. 9, 480: tantos illa suo rumpebat pectore questus,id. ib. 4, 553: tales effundit in aƫra questus,Ov. M. 9, 370: edere questus,id. ib. 4, 587: in questus effundi,Tac. A. 1, 11: creber,id. ib. 3, 7: quaestu vano clamitare,Phaedr. 1, 9, 7.
* Transf., of the soft, plaintive note of the nightingale: maestis late loca questibus implet,Verg. G. 4, 515.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
Lewis Short
questus, a, um, Part., from queror.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary