hostibus

hostibus is a Latin form of hostis, meaning “enemy”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun or ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 627 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.6: quod, cum neque emi neque ex agris sumi possit, tam necessario tempore, tam propinquis hostibus ab iis non sublevetur, praesertim cum magna ex parte eorum precibus adductus bellum susceperit[; multo etiam gravius quod sit destitutus queritur].

Ovid, Amores 2.10.16: Hostibus eveniat vita severa meis!

Plautus, Persa 5.1.753: Hostíbus victis, civíbus salvis, re plácida, pacibus pérfectis,

All forms of hostis (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.