collachrymation

Updated: May 22, 2025

How doleful, trist, and plangorous would such a sight and pageantry prove unto them? You shall not need to think that the collachrymation of the Romans and their confederates at the decease of Germanicus Drusus was comparable to this lamentation of theirs?

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3