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caelestes

caelestes is a Latin form of caelestis, meaning “heavenly, celestial; (caelestes) the gods”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.79: … st eius: constiteram exorientem Auroram forte salutans, cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur. pace mihi liceat caelestes dicere vestra: mortalis visus pulchrior esse deo. huic deo pulchrior; at erat, sicuti hodie est, perversissim …

All forms of caelestis (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.