gladios

gladios is a Latin form of gladius, meaning “sword”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 111 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.75: … quos deprendit interficit. Reliqui coëunt inter se et repentino periculo exterriti sinistras sagis involvunt gladiosque destringunt atque ita se a cetratis equitibusque defendunt castrorum propinquitate confisi seque in castra …

Petronius, Satyricon 89·2: … is se duces, ceu ubi solet nodo remissus Thessali quadrupes iugi cervicem et altas quatere ad excursum iubas. Gladios retractant, commovent orbes manu bellumque sumunt. Hic graves alius mero obtruncat et continuat in mortem ult …

All forms of gladius (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.