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aquilae

aquilae is a Latin form of aquila, meaning “eagle; standard of a legion”. It is the dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.99: … i praeterea in finitimas civitates refugerunt; signaque militaria ex proelio ad Caesarem sunt relata CXXXX et aquilae vim. L. Domitius ex castris in montem refugiens, cum vires eum lassitudine defecissent, ab equitibus est inte …

Cicero, Philippicae 12.20: … municipi mei defendissem. atque idem hic myrmillo Asiaticus, latro Italiae, conlega Lentonis et Nuculae, cum Aquilae primi pili nummos aureos daret, de meis bonis se dare dixit: si enim de suis dixisset, ne aquilam quidem ipsa …

All forms of aquila (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.