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baculo

baculo is a Latin form of baculus, meaning “stick, walking stick, staff; lictor's rod/staff (not fascas); scepter”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or dative singular masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.25.1: … misso, reliquarum cohortium omnibus fere centurionibus aut vulneratis aut occisis, in his primipilo P. Sextio Baculo, fortissimo viro, multis gravibusque vulneribus confecto, ut iam se sustinere non posset, reliquos esse tardi …

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.142: … s exercitatissimi, caedunt acerrime virgis; denique proximus lictor, de quo iam saepe dixi, Sextius, converso baculo oculos misero tundere vehementissime coepit. itaque ille, cum sanguis os oculosque complesset, concidit, cum …

All forms of baculus (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.