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‖ lacrimæ rerum|ˈlækrɪmaɪ rɛərəm|
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With reference to Virgil, Aeneid i. 462: the sadness of life; tears shed for the sorrows of men.
[1841Carlyle Let. 19 July in R. K. Webb H. Martineau (1960) vii. 196 Poor Harriet! She was.. almost sublime to me there. Sunt lachrymae rerum.] 1929A. Huxley Do what you Will 195 Hellenic lovers..may have wept the lacrimae rerum. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 71 Only the young and the rich Have the nerve or the figure to strike The lacrimae rerum note. 1959Times 19 Mar. 4/1 He [sc. Mahler] told in his music truths of humanity, of the lacrimae rerum, and of alleviating beauty. 1969G. Smith in A. Huxley Lett. (1969) 1 Though often tinged with a profound instinct to weep for life, it—and by no means the sadness of lacrimæ rerum—is Huxley's hallmark. |