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Poeni

Poeni is a Latin form of Poenus, meaning “Carthaginian, Phoenician; (Poeni) the Carthaginians”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 98 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 11.9: … cogitur. cruciatus est a Dolabella Trebonius: et quidem a Carthaginiensibus Regulus. qua re cum crudelissimi Poeni iudicati sint in hoste, quid in cive de Dolabella iudicandum est? an vero hoc conferendum est aut dubitandum …

All forms of Poenus (declension table)

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.