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aciem

aciem is a Latin form of acies, meaning “battle line; sharp edge; sight”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 734 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.22.3: Caesar suas copias in proximum collem subducit, aciem instruit. Labienus, ut erat ei praeceptum a Caesare ne proelium committeret, nisi ipsius copiae prope hostium …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.39: … sce igitur et volnus alliga. etiamsi Eurypylus posset, non posset Aesopus: Ubi fortuna Hectóris nostram acrem áciem inclinatám et cetera explicat in dolore; sic est enim intemperans militaris in forti viro gloria. ergo haec v …

Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.2.1028: Ad eám rem habeo omnem aciém, tibi uti dudúm iam demonstrávi.

All forms of acies (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.