catervas

catervas is a Latin form of caterva, meaning “crowd, band, troop”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 69 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.113: … nunc, cum ita esset necatus, sceleris audaciae crudelitatis testem fore. iam illa praeclara: non testium modo catervas, cum tua res ageretur, sed ab dis manibus innocentium Poenas sceleratorumque Furias in tuum iudicium esse ven …

Suetonius, Caligula 18.1: Munera gladiatoria partim in amphitheatro Tauri partim in Saeptis aliquot edidit, quibus inseruit cateruas Afrorum Campanorumque pugilum ex utraque regione electissimorum. neque spectaculis semper ipse praesedit, sed …

All forms of caterva (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.