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Argis

Argis is a Latin form of Argus, meaning “(Argi, Argos) Argos, Greek city; (Argus) Argus, the hundred-eyed watchman of Io”. It is the ablative plural neuter adjective or ablative plural feminine adjective or ablative plural masculine adjective or dative plural neuter adjective.

Found 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 2.81: … vero Aratus Sicyonius iure laudatur, qui, cum eius civitas quinquaginta annos a tyrannis teneretur, profectus Argis Sicyonem clandestine introitu urbe est potitus, cumque tyrannum Nicoclem improviso oppressisset, sescentos ex …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.