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Em

Em is a Latin form of hem, meaning “ha! well! (surprise)”. It is the noun.

Found 131 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 3.116: … Cyrenaici atque Annicerii philosophi nominati omne bonum in voluptate posuerunt virtutemque censuerunt ob eam em esse laudandam, quod efficiens esset voluptatis. Quibus obsoletis floret Epicurus, eiusdem fere adiutor aucto …

Terence, Adelphi 5.3.791b: Em tibi:

Plautus, Captivi 3.4.540: Sequere. ém tibi hominem. adi, atque adloquere.

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.