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feras

feras is a Latin form of fero, meaning “bring, carry, bear; endure”.

It can also be a form of ferus, “wild, savage; (fera, f.) wild animal, beast”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective or 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 238 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.84: … . Sed satis iam fecisse officio satisque supplicii tulisse perpessos omnium rerum inopiam; nunc vero paene ut feras circummunitos prohiberi aqua, prohiberi ingressu, neque corpore dolorem neque animo ignominiam ferre posse. I …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 7.63.9: Feras autem hos, qui neglegentissime amicos habent, miserrime lugent, nec amant quemquam, nisi perdiderunt? Ideoque tunc effusius maerent, quia verentur, ne dubium sit, an amaverint; sera indicia adfectus sui quaerunt.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.14.4.3: Ferás, non culpes, quód vitari nón potest.

All forms of fero (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.