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cruciatibus

cruciatibus is a Latin form of cruciatus, meaning “torture, torment”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.56.2: quo lege communi omnes puberes armati convenire consuerunt; qui ex eis novissimus convenit, in conspectu multitudinis omnibus cruciatibus affectus necatur.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.2.5: Cruciatibus autem doloribusque corporis et periculis mortem minitantibus habitum statumque vitae beatae, quem se esse adeptum putabat, neque laedi neque inminui existimabat, ac ne oris quoque et vultus serenitatem stoici hominis umquam ulla posse aegritudine obnubilari.

All forms of cruciatus (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.