captivis

captivis is a Latin form of captivus, meaning “captive, prisoner”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 128 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.22.1: Prima luce, cum summus mons a [Lucio] Labieno teneretur, ipse ab hostium castris non longius mille et quingentis passibus abesset neque, ut postea ex captivis comperit, aut ipsius adventus aut Labieni cognitus esset,

Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 5.6: … uidquid cogitaret uolueretque animo quamlibet magnum, id esse prouenturum pollicerentur; et unus ex nobilibus captiuis Iosephus, cum coiceretur in uincula, constantissime asseuerauit fore ut ab eodem breui solueretur, uerum iam …

Martial, Epigrammata 14.26.2: Captivis poteris cultior esse comis.

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.