Translation
woe!, alas
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Examples
!
Woe to the conquered!
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Woe is me!
, !
Woe betide you if you don't come!
takes the dative of whoever will suffer: , woe is me. Livy gives the most quoted example, a Gaul's taunt as the Romans weighed out their ransom: (5.48.9). Later writers put it in the mouth of Brennus.
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