conqueror

con-quĕror, questus, 3, v. dep. a. and n., to complain of a thing, or to bewail, lament passionately or much (class. in prose and poetry).

(α).

With acc.: conqueri fortunam adversam non lamentari decet, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 50: res suas adversum illum (mulier), Titin. ap. Non. p. 232, 22; cf.:

fortunas suas mecum (mulier),

Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 47:

decumarum imperia, bonorum direptiones, iniqua judicia, etc.,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 111; cf.:

vim atque injuriam dictatoris apud patres,

Liv. 8, 33, 4; 1, 53, 5; 40, 24, 6 al.; Auct. Her. 2, 31, 50; * Quint. 6, 1, 18; Tac. H. 1, 54 bis; Suet. Aug. 66; Tib. 1, 10, 54; Ov. M. 14, 243 al.:

aliquid pro re publicā,

Cic. Sest. 2, 3.—

(β).

With acc. and inf.:

se dissolvi,

Lucr. 3, 612; so Suet. Tib. 10; 34; id. Claud. 2.—

(γ).

With de or cur:

de alicujus improbitate deplorare et conqueri,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18, § 45:

de alicujus injuriā,

id. Fam. 5, 2, 6:

uti conquereretur, cur Pisonem aditu arceret,

Tac. A. 15, 60:

quod,

id. ib. 15, 61:

Tiberio de eādem re... apud se per epistulam conquerenti ita rescripsit,

Suet. Aug. 51 fin.:

eos apud se de collegarum judicio fuisse conquestos,

Aug. Ep. 53, 5.—

(δ).

Absol.:

aliā voce ac res monebat,

Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 15:

conquerar an sileam?

Ov. M. 9, 147:

quid ego ignaris nequiquam conqueror auris,

Cat. 64, 164:

alicui,

Sil. 8, 94.— Impers.:

postero die in senatu conquestum,

Suet. Caes. 20.