querulus

quĕrŭlus, a, um, adj. [queror].

I.

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.—

II.

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.