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dictis

dictis is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”.

It can also be a form of dictum, “word, saying”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

Found 380 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.77.2: de exitu suarum fortunarum consultabant. Ac variis dictis sententiis, quarum pars deditionem, pars, dum vires suppeterent, eruptionem censebat, non praetereunda oratio Critognati videtur propter eius singularem et nefariam crudelitatem.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.283: saepe casas superi.” Dictis et tempore motae

All forms of dico (conjugation 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.