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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- vae, interj. [ou)ai/], an exclamation of pain or dread, ah! alas! (a). Absol.:
Mantua, vae, miserae nimium vicina Cremonae
, Verg. E. 9, 28; Hor. C. 1, 13, 3: vae verbero!
Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 51.—(b). Very freq. like the Gr. ou)ai/ and our woe! with dat.: vae misero mihi!
Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 94; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 9: mihi
, id. Eun. 4, 4, 42: illi
, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 7: tergo meo
, id. Men. 2, 2, 3; cf. id. Capt. 3, 4, 117: capiti atque aetati tuae
, id. Rud. 2, 3, 44.—Esp., in the exclamation ascribed to Brennus: vae victis! intoleranda Romanis vox
, Liv. 5, 48, 9; Flor. 1, 13, 17; Fest. p. 372 Müll.; Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 19; also, as title of a Satire by Varro, v. Non. 82, 17; 156, 13; 492, 8 (Müll. de victis).— (g). Very rarely with acc.: vae te!
woe to you!
Plaut. As. 2, 4, 75: scelesta, vae te!
Cat. 8, 15: vae me!
Sen. Apocol. 4, 3.
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