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capitibus

capitibus is a Latin form of caput, meaning “head; person; life; capital”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

Found 70 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.10.5: ex quibus sunt qui piscibus atque ovis avium vivere existimantur, multis capitibus in Oceanum influit.]

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.1.20: Praeterea de penu adscribendum hoc etiam putavi, Servium Sulpicium In Reprehensis Scaevolae Capitibus scripsisse Cato Aelio placuisse, non quae esui et potui forent, sed thus quoque et cereos in penu esse, quod esset eius ferme rei causa comparatum.

All forms of caput (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.