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ambagibus

ambagibus is a Latin form of ambages, meaning “roundabout way, winding; evasion, riddle”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.692: “Praebuimus longis” Pentheus “ambagibus aures”

All forms of ambages (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.