hostium

hostium is a Latin form of hostis, meaning “enemy”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 1,689 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.11.3: … ssarii et consanguinei Haeduorum, Caesarem certiorem faciunt sese depopulatis agris non facile ab oppidis vim hostium prohibere.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.41: … ie excludebant. Sic neque in loco manere ordinesque servare neque procurrere et casum subire tutum videbatur. Hostium copiae submissis ab rege auxiliis crebro augebantur; nostros vires lassitudine deficiebant, simul ei, qui vul …

Plautus, Amphitruo 1.1.246: foédant et próterunt hóstium cópias

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.