ancipites

ancipites is a Latin form of anceps, meaning “two-headed; double; doubtful, uncertain; dangerous”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.103: … aetheriis ignibus altissima ora reddatur; bestiarum autem terrenae sunt aliae, partim aquatiles, aliae quasi ancipites in utraque sede viventes, sunt quaedam etiam quae igne nasci putentur appareantque in ardentibus fornacibus s …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.438: Ancipitesque vias et iter Titania vastum

All forms of anceps (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.