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dixit

dixit is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative or 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 1,975 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.42.7: Quod cum fieret, non inridicule quidam ex militibus X. legionis dixit: plus quam pollicitus esset Caesarem facere; pollicitum se in cohortis praetoriae loco X. legionem habiturum ad equum rescribere.

Vergil, Aeneid 1.402: Dixit, et avertens rosea cervice refulsit,

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.