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clipeum

clipeum is a Latin form of clipeus, meaning “round shield”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.101: … eritorum, qui non membra solum hominis deo tribuant sed usum etiam membrorum; dant enim arcum sagittas hastam clipeum fuscinam fulmen, et si actiones quae sint deorum non vident, nihil agentem tamen deum non queunt cogitare. ip …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.17.4: Demócritus Abderítes physicus phílosophus Clipeúm constituit cóntra exortum Hyperíonis, Oculós effodere ut pósset splendore aéreo. Ita rádiis solis áciem effod …

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.