brevem

brevem is a Latin form of brevis, meaning “short, brief; small, narrow; (brevi) shortly, in a short time”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective or accusative singular feminine adjective or accusative singular feminine noun or accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 109 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.29.1: Contra ea Titurius sero facturos clamitabat, cum maiores manus hostium adiunctis Germanis convenissent, aut cum aliquid calamitatis in proximis hibernis esset acceptum. Brevem consulendi esse occasionem. Caesarem arbitrari profectum in Italiam;

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 7: si vobis aequa et honesta postulatio videtur, iudices, ego contra brevem postulationem adfero et, quo modo mihi persuadeo, aliquanto aequiorem. primum a Chrysogono peto ut pecunia fo …

Suetonius, Divus Julius 56.7: … s, tragoedia Oedipus, item Dicta collectanea: quos omnis libellos uetuit Augustus publicari in epistula, quam breuem admodum ac simplicem ad Pompeium Macrum, cui ordinandas bibliothecas delegauerat, misit.

All forms of brevis (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.