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flentes

flentes is a Latin form of fleo, meaning “weep”. It is the present active participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.27.2: Qui cum eum in itinere convenissent seque ad pedes proiecissent suppliciterque locuti flentes pacem petissent, atque eos in eo loco quo tum essent suum adventum expectare iussisset, paruerunt.

Martial, Epigrammata 8.44.15: Flentes superbus basiabit eunuchos;

All forms of fleo (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.