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ducibus

ducibus is a Latin form of dux, meaning “leader, general”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 295 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.21.2: Renuntiatum est facilem esse. De tertia vigilia T. Labienum, legatum pro praetore, cum duabus legionibus et iis ducibus qui iter cognoverant summum iugum montis ascendere iubet; quid sui consilii sit ostendit.

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.2.18: Ducibus deinde negotium datur, ut suos quisque castiget, satisque omnibus stimulatis opus orsus est. Magna vis saxorum ad manum erat Tyro Vetere praebente, materies ex Libano monte ratibus et turribus faciendis advehebatur.

All forms of dux (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.