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ceciderunt

ceciderunt is a Latin form of cado, meaning “fall; die”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 90 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.46: … em ac tutiorem nostris receptum dat. Ita vario certamine pugnatum est. Nostri in primo congressu circiter LXX ceciderunt, in his Q. Fulginius ex primo hastato legionis XIIII, qui propter eximiam virtutem ex inferioribus ordinibus …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 7.9.16: Sed Macedonas ira longius provexit: quippe media fere nocte in castra redierunt multis interfectis, pluribus captis equosque м et DCCC abegere. Ceciderunt autem Macedonum equites LX, pedites C fere, M saucii fuerunt.

All forms of cado (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.