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catenis

catenis is a Latin form of catena, meaning “chain, fetter”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 93 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.53.5: C. Valerius Procillus, cum a custodibus in fuga trinis catenis vinctus traheretur, in ipsum Caesarem hostes equitatu insequentem incidit.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 3.24.10: Vox haec illum parem maioribus fecit et fatalem Scipionibus in Africa gloriam non est interrumpi passa. Multum fuit Carthaginem vincere, sed amplius mortem. Imperator, inquit, se bene habet. An aliter debebat imperator, et quidem Catenis, mori?

All forms of catena (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.