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beneficiis

beneficiis is a Latin form of beneficium, meaning “kindness, favor, benefit”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

Found 188 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.42.3: magnamque in spem veniebat pro suis tantis populique Romani in eum beneficiis cognitis suis postulatis fore uti pertinacia desisteret.

Seneca the Younger, De Ira 1.5.3: … ximus, auida poenae est, cuius cupidinem inesse pacatissimo hominis pectori minime secundum eius naturam est. Beneficiis enim humana uita constat et concordia, nec terrore sed mutuo amore in foedus auxiliumque commune constringitu …

All forms of beneficium (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.