Wednesday, May 20, 2009

doleo, -ere, -ui, -itum, to suffer pain, to grieve, to lament

Aeneid 1.9, quidve dolens regina deum .../impulerit (or, suffering what grief , did the queen of the gods drive ....). cf. dolor, -oris, m. pain, sorrow, grief. Eng. dolorous, marked by, or exhibiting, sorrow, grief, or pain.

William Wordsworth, Imaginative Regrets, l. 4
DEEP is the lamentation! Not alone
From Sages justly honoured by mankind;
But from the ghostly tenants of the wind,
Demons and Spirits, many a dolorous groan
Issues for that dominion overthrown:
Proud Tiber grieves, and far-off Ganges, blind
As his own worshippers: and Nile, reclined
Upon his monstrous urn, the farewell moan
Renews. Through every forest, cave, and den,
Where frauds were hatched of old, hath sorrow past--
Hangs o'er the Arabian Prophet's native Waste,
Where once his airy helpers schemed and planned
'Mid spectral lakes bemocking thirsty men,
And stalking pillars built of fiery sand.

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