The corpus record — Latin

Hei

Hei · interj

ah! woe!

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Where it lives

Adelphi 7 · 7.07/10k
Phormio 7 · 6.46/10k
Andria 4 · 4.06/10k
Heautontimorumenos 4 · 3.64/10k
Carmina 4 · 3.11/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

hei — Lewis & Short

hei (also ei), interj., an exclamation of grief or fear,

I ah! woe! freq. joined with mihi, ah me! woe is me! hei, perii miser! Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 36: hei, occidi! id. Aul. 2, 1, 28: hei, non placet convivium! id. Amph. 2, 2, 173: hei, vereor, ne quid Andria apportet mali, Ter. And. 1, 1, 46: hei, metuo lenonem ne, etc., id. Phorm. 3, 2, 6: hei, video uxorem, id. ib. 5, 3, 14 ei mihi, qualis erat! Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 2, 274; imitated by Verg. A. 2, 274: hei mihi, perii hercle! Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 21: Am. Hei mihi! Br. Ne pave, id. Amph. 5, 1, 57: hei mihi, vereor dicere! Ter. And. 2, 1, 22: hei mihi, quantum Praesidium Ausonia et quantum tu perdis, Iule! Verg. A. 11, 57: hei mihi! conclamat, Ov. M. 6, 227: hei mihi! hei mihi! istaec illum perdidit assentatio, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 7: hei misero mihi! id. Aul. 2, 2, 23; Ter. Heaut. 2, 2, 5. id. Ad. 2, 1, 19.

In the wild

hei Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.26.4
Hei Terence, Phormio 5.3
Hei Terence, Adelphi 2.2
hei Catullus, Carmina elegies.68a.53
hei Terence, Andria 1.5
Hei Terence, Phormio 5.8

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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