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fletibus

fletibus is a Latin form of fletus, meaning “weeping, tears”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 4.439: fletibus, aut voces ullas tractabilis audit;

Petronius, Satyricon 89: … tus Sinon firmabat et mens semper in damnum potens. Iam turba portis libera ac bello carens in vota properat. Fletibus manant genae mentisque pavidae gaudium lacrimas habet, quas metus abegit. Namque Neptuno sacer crinem solutus …

All forms of fletus (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.