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clipeos

clipeos is a Latin form of clipeus, meaning “round shield”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 2.389: mutemus clipeos, Danaumque insignia nobis

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.3.25: Unci quoque et falces ex isdem asseribus dependentes aut propugnatores aut ipsa navigia lacerabant. Clipeos vero aereos multo igne torrebant, quos repletos fervida harena caenoque decocto e muris subito devolvebant.

All forms of clipeus (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.