Plango, plangis, planxi, planctum, plangere. Ouid.To weepe: to bewaile: to strike: to hit: to thumpe or knocke.Lacertos suos planxit.Ouid.He did beate his armes together.Pectora plangere manu. Oui. To beate or knocke his breast with his hande.Humum pectore plangere.Ouid.Venti plangunt vestem per auras. Lucret. Winds flap together wide garments in the ayre.Fluctus plangentes saxa. Lucre. The wanes dashing against the rockes. Plangere To bewaile and lamente.Carmine plangere aliquem.Stat.To bewaile ones death in meeter.Plangunt sua damna coloni.Stat.Magno planxit diuortia luctu. Claud. With great sorrow he lamented the diuorcement or separation.Funera alicuius plangere.Stat. Plangunt littora.Virg.The sea sids rore.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
plango, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a. [from the root *p*l*a*g, plh/ssw; cf. Lat. plāga], to strike, beat, esp. with a noise. I. In gen. (poet.; cf. plaudo): fluctus plangentes saxa, Lucr. 2, 1155; 6, 115: moribundo vertice terram, Ov. M. 12, 118: humum, id. H. 16, 334: quanto planguntur litora fluctu!id. ib. 19, 121: tympana palmis, Cat. 64, 261: nunc (Boreas) ipsas alis planget stridentibus Alpes, Sil. 1, 588.—Pass., of a bird when caught: plangitur,
beats with its wings
, Ov. M. 11, 75.—II. In partic., to beat the breast, head, etc., as a sign of grief (class.): qui multis inspectantibus caput feriebas, femina plangebas, Cic. aer. alien. Mil. Fragm. 2, 4 (t. 11, p. 32 B. and K.): laniataque pectora plangens, Ov. M. 6, 248: femur maerenti dextrā, id. ib. 11, 81: lacertos, id. ib. 9, 636: pectus, Petr. 111.—Pass. (= ko/ptesqai): scissaeque capillos Planguntur matres Calydonides Eveninae,
beat themselves for agony
, Ov. M. 8, 526.—B.Transf., to lament aloud, wring the hands; with aliquem or aliquid, to bewail a person or thing (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): planxere sorores Naïdes ... Planxere et Dryades: plangentibus absonat Echo, Ov. M. 3, 505: ab omni plangitur arce, Stat. Th. 11, 417: plangentia agmina, Verg. A. 11, 145: plangentium gemitus, Just. 19, 2 fin.: modo Sporum hortabatur ut lamentari ac plangere inciperet, Suet. Ner. 49; id. Oth. 8: plangentis populi derisor, Juv. 6, 534.—With an object: tendit palmas, ceu sit planctura relictam Andromedam, Caes. Germ. Arat. 198; Val. Fl. 3, 297: Memphiten bovem (i. e. Apim), Tib. 1, 8, 27 (7, 28): damna, Stat. Th. 11, 117: malum, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 159; Vulg. Judic. 11, 37.—Pass.: virtutes quas neque lugeri neque plangi fas est, Tac. Agr. 46: majore tumultu Planguntur nummi quam funera, Juv. 13, 131.