mĭser — Lewis & Short
mĭser, ĕra, ĕrum, adj.prob. Sanscr. root mi-; cf. minuo; akin to Gr. mi=sos; Lat. maestus, maereo,
I wretched, unfortunate, miserable, pitiable, lamentable, etc. (cf.: infelix, calamitosus).
1 Of persons:
nihil est tam miserabile, quam ex beato miser,Cic. Part. Or. 17, 57:
homo miser, et infortunatus,Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 20:
miser atque infelix,Cic. Quint. 30, 94:
urgeris multis miser undique curis,Lucr. 3, 1051:
o multo miserior Dolabella, quam ille, quem tu miserrimum esse voluisti,Cic. Phil. 11, 4, 8:
miser, infelix, aerumnosus,id. Par. 2, 1, 16:
miserrimum habere aliquem,to torment, id. Fam. 14, 7, 1:
miserrimus Fui fugitando,have exhausted myself with running, am completely tired out, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 7.—With gen.:
miseros ambitionis,Plin. Pan. 58, 5.—
2 Of things, afflicting, sad, wretched, melancholy:
miserā ambitione laborare,Hor. S. 1, 4, 26:
misera orbitas,Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84:
misera et calamitosa res,id. Rosc. Am. 28, 77.—
3 Sick, ill, indisposed, etc.:
quo morbo misera sum,suffer, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 39:
homini misero non invideo medicinam,Petr. 129; cf.:
quid illam miseram animi excrucias?Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 76:
homo animo suo miser,id. Truc. 2, 7, 36:
miserum esse ex animo,to be wretched in mind, sick at heart, id. Ep. 4, 1, 1.—
4 Violent, excessive, extravagant:
amor,Verg. A. 5, 655:
cultus miser,with regard to dress, Hor. S. 2, 2, 66.—
5 Bad, vile, poor, worthless:
carmen,Verg. E. 3, 27:
remedium,Cels. 5, 26, 34.—With gen.: morum, Stat. Th. 4, 403:
hominem perditum miserumque,Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 28.—
6 As an exclamation, inserted in the midst of a sentence:
ossa atque pellis sum, misera, macritudine,Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 32: miserum! (parenthetically) i. e. what a misfortune! how sad! tum pendere poenas Cecropidae jussi (miserum!) septena quotannis Corpora, Verg. A. 6, 21.—As subst.: mĭsĕ-rum, i, n., a wretched thing, wretchedness:
bonum valetudo, miserum morbus,Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84 MSS. dub. (Madv. and B. and K. miser).—Hence, adv., in two forms.
1 mĭsĕrē, wretchedly, miserably; desperately, vehemently, excessively, urgently (class.): est misere scriptum, Pseudole! Ps. O miserrime, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 72:
vivere,Cic. Fin. 3, 15, 501:
misere amare,Plaut. Mil. 4, 6, 32:
deperire,id. Cist. 1, 2, 12:
invidere,Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 22:
orare aliquid,id. Heaut. 2, 3, 124:
discedere quaerens,Hor. S. 1, 9, 8; cf.:
misere cupis abire,id. ib. 1, 9, 14:
ut miserius a vobis recipiatur quam ab illo capta est,Liv. 34, 24, 2:
misere miser,Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 21:
misere male,id. Bacch. 4, 9, 10.—
2 mĭsĕrĭter, wretchedly, lamentably, sadly (ante-class.; poet.): corrumpi, Laber. ap. Non. 517, 2:
alloqui,Cat. 63, 49; Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 1010 P. (Vahl. Enn. p. 180, n. 40).