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caecum

caecum is a Latin form of caecus, meaning “blind; dark, hidden; aimless”. It is the genitive plural neuter adjective or genitive plural masculine adjective or accusative singular masculine adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.28: … tineribus ad naves decurrunt. Milites positis I scalis muros ascendunt, sed moniti a Brundisinis, ut I vallum caecum fossasque caveant, subsistunt et longo I itinere ab his circumducti ad portum perveniunt ' duasque naves cum …

Tacitus, Dialogus 1·16: … is humanae vetera semper in laude, praesentia in fastidio esse. num dubitamus inventos qui prae Catone Appium Caecum magis mirarentur? satis constat ne Ciceroni quidem obtrectatores defuisse, quibus inflatus et tumens nec sati …

All forms of caecus (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.