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afuisse

afuisse is a Latin form of absum, meaning “be away, be absent; be distant”. It is the perfect active infinitive.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.53.7: neque longius milia passuum octo ab hibernis suis afuisse, sed nuntio allato de victoria Caesaris discessisse, adeo ut fugae similis discessus videretur.

All forms of absum (conjugation 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.