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misellus

poor, wretched, unfortunate

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Where it lives

De Testimionio Animae 2 · 8.95/10k
Carmina 5 · 3.89/10k
Metamorphoses 18 · 3.37/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mĭsellus — Lewis & Short

mĭsellus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [miser], poor, wretched, unfortunate (rare, and with Cic. only in the epistolary style): homo, Cic. Att. 3, 23, 6; id. Fam. 14, 4, 3: o miselle passer, Cat. 3, 16.—As subst.: mĭsellus, i, m., a wretch, miserable fellow, Juv. 13, 213.—Esp., applied to the dead: cum alicujus defuncti recordaris, misellum vocas eum, Tert. Test. Anim. 4; Petr. 65.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: redactus sum usque ad hoc misellum pallium, Plaut. Rud. 2, 6, 65: spes, Lucr. 4, 1096.

Where it came from

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