misellus

misellus
mĭsellus, a, um, adj. dim. [miser], poor, wretched, unfortunate (rare, and with Cic. only in the epistolary style):

homo,

 Cic. Att. 3, 23, 6; id. Fam. 14, 4, 3:

o miselle passer,

 Cat. 3, 16.—As subst.: mĭsellus, i, m., a wretch, miserable fellow, Juv. 13, 213.—Esp., applied to the dead:

cum alicujus defuncti recordaris, misellum vocas eum,

 Tert. Test. Anim. 4; Petr. 65.—Of inanim. and abstr. things:

redactus sum usque ad hoc misellum pallium,

 Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 65:

spes,

 Lucr. 4, 1096.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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