Querêla, læ, f. g. pen. pro. Cic.A complaint, moning or bewailing, when one findeth himselfe griened with a thing.Plena querelacam epistola.Cic.Querela tempofum.Cic.A lamenting of the ill state of any time.Cui sunt inauditæ cum Deiotaro querelæ tuæ? Cicc.Who hath not heard of the complaints that you haue made to Deiotarus.Rustica querela.Ouid.In querelis mens, Vide IN præpositionem.Dulces querelæ, Lucrer.Falsa enim est querela, &c. Quin. Fœmineæ querelæ.Stat. Grauissima querela. Cice, Inertes querelæ, Vide INERS.Infestæ. Lucret. Inueterata querela, Vide INVETERO.Iusta querela mea est.Ouid. Miseræ. Ouid.Mœstæ querelæ.Ouid. Molles. Hor. Muliebres. Claud. Rudes. Mirt. Supplices. Tibull. Abruptæ.Stat.Abscindere querelas. Val. Flae. Adhibere querelas, Vide ADHIBEO.Assurgere haud iustis querelis.Virg.Audite misetas querelas.Ouid.Veterem in limo ranæ cecinêre querelam.Virg.Compescere querelas. Lucret. Complere querelis nemus. Lucret. To make the woode to ring with the noise of his lamenting.Querelæ quas illideplorare solebant.Cic.Effundunt iustas in numina sæua querelas. Lucan. Muliebres querelas ore excutere. Claud. Expleta est annis ista querela tuis.Ouid.Multas expromam mente querelas. Catull. Tacitus nostras intra te fige querelas.Iuuen.Keepe secreate our complaints, and say nothing of them.Habere querelam dcitur res aliqua. Cic.When it pleaseth not all, but some men will find thÊselues grieued with it.Iacere querelas ore, Vide IACIO.Incendere aliquem querelis Virg.Non ingratis incelsit tuiba querelis. Lucan. Geminis incusat fata querelis.Stat.Interponere querelas, Vide INTERPONO.Veteres querelas mitto.Stat.Parere querelas. Sen. Proferre querelas extremis medullis. Catull. To vtter complaints from the bottome of his heart.Tandem vt vox mœstas potuit proferre querelas. Lucan. Rabidis querelis pulsare iniustos.Stat.Sistere querelas.Ouid.Eorum est hæc querela qui sibi chari sunt.Cic.They mays thus complaine, which, &c.De tot, tantisque iniurijs in socios Consulum querela esse debuit.Cic.They shoulde haue complasned of, &c.Liquidam tollunt lugubri voce querelam. Lucret. Tolle querelas. Hora.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quĕrēla or quĕrella, ae, f. [queror], a complaining, complaint (class.). I.Lit.A. Ingen.: intervenit nonnullorum querelis, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 1, 2: hominum vel admiratio vel querela, id. Lael. 1, 2: inveterata, id. ib. 10, 36: epistula plena querelarum, id. Q. Fr. 3, 8, 1: longae, Ov. F. 4, 83: vestrum beneficium nonnullam habet querelam,
gives some occasion for complaint
, Cic. Fam. 10, 28, 1: his de tot tantisque injuriis, id. Sest. 30, 64: cui sunt inauditae cum Deiotaro querelae tuae?id. Deiot. 3, 9: querela Lucretiae patris ac propinquorum, id. Rep. 2, 25, 46: QVI VIXIT SINE VLLA QVERELA CVM CONIVGE,
, id. Fam. 2, 16, 1: aequalium meorum, id. Sen. 3, 7.— With quod: an quod a sociis eorum non abstinuerim, justam querelam habent, Liv. 32, 34, 5.—With obj.clause: falsa est querela, paucissimis hominibus vim percipiendi, quae tradantur, esse concessam, Quint. 1, 1, 1. — B. In partic., a complaint, accusation (postAug.): advocati flagitabant, uti judex querelam inspiceret, Petr. 15: frequentes, Dig. 5, 2, 1: instituere,
to institute
, ib. 5, 2, 8; 5, 2, 21; Val. Max. 9, 10, 2. — II.Transf.A.A plaintive song for lulling children to sleep: longa somnum suadere querela, Stat. Th. 5, 616. — B.A plaintive sound, plaintive note, plaint; of animals or instruments. — Of swans: tollunt lugubri voce querellam, Lucr. 4, 546.— Of frogs: et veterem in limo ranae cecinere querellam, Verg. G. 1, 378; cf. id. A. 8, 215.—Of doves, Plin. 10, 34, 52, 104.— Of the plaintive tones of the tibia: dulcesque querellas, Tibia quas fundit, Lucr. 4, 584; 5, 1384.— C.A pain that occasions complaining, a complaint, disease, malady: pulmonis ac viscerum querelas levare, Sen. Q. N. 3, 1, 3; Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 18 (29), 1.