Queror, quéreris, pen. corr. questus sum, queri. Cæsar. To lament or complaine: to bewaile: to make mone: to find hunselie grieued.Questus est grauiter.Cic.He greatly complained.Aues queruntur in syluis. Hor. Bubo visa sæpe queri ferali carmine.Virg.The owle seemed often to crie with an vuluckie noise.Ore queri. Hor. Carmiue queri. Ouid.Dulce queruntur aues.Ouid.The birdes sing pleasantly. Suum factum querebantur. Cæs. Acceperam Milonem meÛ queri per literas meã iniuriã. C. Querebatur cum Deo, quòd parum longè videret. Cice. He complained, or made his mone to God, that, &c.Lachrymans mecum est questus.Cic.He weeping made hys mone to me.Sæpe de luxuria ciuium questus est.Sal.Hee oftÊtimes complained of, or founde himselfe grieued with, &c.Multa de mea sententia questus est Cæsari.Cic.Hee made a great complaint to Cæsar of my sentence.Is mihi queritur, quòd nobis, &c.Cic.Hee complaineth to me, &c.-quereris super hoc etiam, quòd Expectata tibi non mittam carmina. Hor. You complain and find your selfe grieued with this also.Apud populum questus, quòd de se tale aliquid timuissent. Pli. iun. Making his complaint or mone to the people.Querebatur se rum, quum illa videre cœpisset extingui. Ci.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quĕror, questus, 3, v. dep. a. and n. [Sanscr. root, c?*!vas-, to sigh]. I.Lit.A. In gen., to complain, lament, bewail (class.). (a). With acc.: suas fortunas, to bewail one's fate, Plaut. As. 3, 1, 12: suum fatum, Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4: injuriam, Cic. Att. 5, 8, 2: omnia, id. Fl. 24: fortunam, Ov. M. 15, 493: nova monstra, Hor. C. 1, 2, 6 al.: labem atque ignominiam rei publicae, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 33.—(b). With de: queritur de Milone per vim expulso, Cic. Att. 9, 14, 2: de injuriis alicujus, id. Fam. 1, 4, 3.— (g). With cum: quererer tecum, atque expostularem, ni,
I would complain to you
, Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 7: cum patribus conscriptis, Liv. 35, 8: cum deo, quod, Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 81; Vell. 2, 130, 3: tecum inconsideratae pietatis queror, Sen. Contr. 4, 27, 2.—(d). With apud: apud novercam, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 80: apud aliquem per litteras, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 13.— (e) With dat.: nec quereris patri?
nor complain to your father?
Juv. 2, 131.— (z) With obj.-clause: ne querantur se relictas esse, Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 14.—(h) With quod: legatos miserunt Athenas questum, quod, etc., Nep. Chabr. 3, 1: queri libet, quod in secreta nostra non inquirant principes, Plin. Pan. 68, 8; cf.: quereris super hoc, quod non mittam carmina, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 24. —(q) With pro: haec pro re publicā,
in behalf of
,
in the name of the State
, Cic. de Or. 2, 48, 198.— (i) Absol.: nisi omni tempore, quod mihi lege concessum est, abusus ero, querere, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 9, 25: non injuste, Vell. 2, 40, 6.— B. In partic., to make a complaint before a court: de proconsulatu alicujus, Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 2.— II.Transf., of animals and things that utter a plaintive sound. Of apes: queri rauco stridore, Ov. M. 14, 100.— Of the owl, Verg. A. 4, 463. — In gen., of the song of birds,
to complain
,
lament
,
to coo
,
warble
,
sing
, Hor. Epod. 2, 26: dulce queruntur aves, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 4.—Of a musical instrument: flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, Ov. M. 11, 52; Hor. C. 2, 13, 24.