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dolis

dolis is a Latin form of dolus, meaning “trick, deceit, guile”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of dolium, “large jar (for wine or grain)”.

Found 83 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 1.673: Quocirca capere ante dolis et cingere flamma

Plautus, Bacchides 4.9.952: vínctus sum, sed dólis me exemi: item se ílle servavít dolis.

All forms of dolus (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.