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cavere

cavere is a Latin form of caveo, meaning “beware, take care”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.14.2: qui si alicuius iniuriae sibi conscius fuisset, non fuisse difficile cavere; sed eo deceptum, quod neque commissum a se intellegeret quare timeret neque sine causa timendum putaret.

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 55: … laeta agere; de Metello fama praeclara esse. Igitur eo intentior ad victoriam niti, omnibus modis festinare, cauere tamen, necubi hosti opportunus fieret, meminisse post gloriam invidiam sequi. Ita, quo clarior erat, eo magis …

All forms of caveo (conjugation 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.