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captivi

captivi is a Latin form of captivus, meaning “captive, prisoner”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 65 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.42.5: reliquisque diebus turres ad altitudinem valli, falces testudinesque, quas idem captivi docuerant, parare ac facere coeperunt.

Plautus, Captivi 3.2.508: eo prótinus ad fratrém, mei ubi súnt alii captívi.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 21.15.1: captum oppidum est cum ingenti praeda. quamquam pleraque ab dominis de industria corrupta erant et in caedibus uix ullum discrimen aetatis ira fecerat et captiui militum praeda fuerant,

All forms of captivus (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.