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duobus

duobus is a Latin form of duo, meaning “two”. It is the ablative plural masculine adjective or ablative plural neuter numeral or ablative plural neuter adjective or dative plural masculine numeral.

Found 645 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.48.2: Postridie eius diei praeter castra Caesaris suas copias traduxit et milibus passuum duobus ultra eum castra fecit eo consilio uti frumento commeatuque qui ex Sequanis et Haeduis supportaretur Caesarem intercluderet.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.71: Duobus his unius diei proeliis Caesar desideravit milites DCCCCLX et notos equites Romanos Tuticanum Gallum, senator …

Plautus, Bacchides 4.9.975: eos égo hodie omnis contruncabo duóbus solis ictibus.

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.