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bestiis

bestiis is a Latin form of bestia, meaning “beast, animal”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 60 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 71: … natus esset, careret eis rebus omnibus ex quibus omnia nata esse dicuntur? noluerunt feris corpus obicere ne bestiis quoque quae tantum scelus attigissent immanioribus uteremur; non sic nudos in flumen deicere ne, cum delati e …

All forms of bestia (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.