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castae

castae is a Latin form of castus, meaning “pure, chaste, virtuous; holy”. It is the genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 8.665: extuderat, castae ducebant sacra per urbem

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.9.29: E testibus quidam, sive iratus quod evocatus esset invitus, sive subornatus ab aliquo reorum, ut accusationem exarmaret, Norbanum Licinianum, legatum et inquisitorem, reum postulavit, tamquam in causa Castae - uxor haec Classici - praevaricaretur.

All forms of castus (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.