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auctoribus

auctoribus is a Latin form of auctor, meaning “author, originator; adviser”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 177 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.25.3: Tertium iam hunc annum regnantem inimici, multis palam ex civitate eius auctoribus, eum interfecerunt.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.26: … s carere omni malo mortem. ego enim istuc ipsum vereor ne malum sit non dico carere sensu, sed carendum esse. Auctoribus quidem ad istam sententiam, quam vis obtineri, uti optimis possumus, quod in omnibus causis et debet et solet …

All forms of auctor (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.