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certe

certe is a Latin form of certus, meaning “certain, sure; fixed”. It is the adverb.

Found 1,646 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.25.3: … ea res legioni feliciter eveniret, ' desilite', inquit, ' milites, nisi vultis aquilam hostibus prodere; ego certe meum rei publicae atque imperatori officium praestitero.'

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.29: Certe, inquam, pertinax non ero tibique, si mihi probabis ea, quae dices, libenter assentiar. Probabo, inquit, modo …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.38: … iá magis vestra mórs devitarí potest. Namque Aésculapi líberorum saúcii opplent pórticus; Non pótest accedi.— Cérte Eurypylus híc quidem est. hominem exércitum!

All forms of certus (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.