excubias

excubias is a Latin form of excubiae, meaning “a lying out of the house”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Marcello 32: … , ut pro aliis etiam loquar quod de me ipso sentio, quoniam subesse aliquid putas quod cavendum sit, non modo excubias et custodias sed etiam laterum nostrorum oppositus et corporum pollicemur.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.5.50: Excubiasque agens cura pervigili, barbarorum aliquos ausos, cum apparere non possent, post occasum lunae castra sua te …

All forms of excubiae (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.