miserabilis

mĭsĕrābĭlis, e, adj. [miseror], worthy of pity, pitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad (class.):

nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,

Cic. Part. Or. 17, 57:

fiet ultro miserabilis,

Quint. 11, 1, 64; 9, 4, 133: sisque miser semper;

nec sis miserabilis ulli, Ov. lb. 117: Irus,

Mart. 6, 77, 1:

corpus,

Ov. H. 21, 213:

voces,

plaintive, sad, Liv. 1, 29:

vox,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 63, § 163:

aspectus,

id. Phil. 2, 29, 73:

caedes,

Liv. 1, 59:

elegi,

mournful, Hor. C. 1, 33, 2:

insania,

Aug. Conf. 3, 2, 1.— Comp.:

miserabilior causa mortis,

Liv. 1, 59: mĭsĕrā-bĭlē, adv., for miserabiliter:

miserabile caesis insultare,

Verg. A. 12, 338:

miserabile longum,

Juv. 6, 65.—Hence, adv.: mĭ-sĕrābĭlĭter, pitiably, lamentably, in a way to excite pity, mournfully, sadly, miserably (class.):

emori,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 96:

scripta epistola,

id. Att. 10, 9, 2:

laudare,

to laud pathetically, id. ib. 14, 10, 1:

dicere tristia,

Quint. 4, 2, 120:

perire,

Val. Max. 2, 6, 11.— Comp.:

hac facie miserabilior Pollio,

Juv. 9, 6: miserabilius dicere, Sen. Excerpt. Controv. praef. 4.