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Ptolomaeus

Ptolomaeus is a Latin form of Ptolemaeus, meaning “Ptolemy, name of the Macedonian kings of Egypt”. It is the nominative singular masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.103: … oribus coegerat, quosque ex suis quisque ad hanc rem idoneos existimabam Pelusium pervenit. Ibi casu rex erat Ptolomaeus, puer aetate, magnis copiis cum sorore Cleopatra bellum gerens, quam paucis ante mensibus per suos propinquos …

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.