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crates

crates is a Latin form of cratis, meaning “wickerwork; bundle of brush, fascine; framework, network, lattice”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.81.2: Subito clamore sublato, qua significatione qui in oppido obsidebantur de suo adventu cognoscere possent, crates proicere, fundis, sagittis, lapidibus nostros de vallo proturbare reliquaque quae ad oppugnationem pertinent parant administrare.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 1.10.1: … am unum. Non habeo, cum quo te communicatum velim. Et vide, quod iudicium meum habeas: audeo te tibi credere. Crates, ut aiunt, huius ipsius Stilbonis auditor, cuius mentionem priore epistula feci, cum vidisset adulescentulum …

All forms of cratis (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.