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Samnites

Samnites is a Latin form of Samnis, meaning “a Samnite; (Samnites) the Samnites, people of central Italy”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective or accusative plural feminine adjective or nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective.

Found 123 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 56: curio ad focum sedenti magnum auri pondus Samnites cum attulissent, repudiati sunt; non enim aurum habere praeclarum sibi videri dixit, sed eis qui haberent aur …

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.