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iacet

iacet is a Latin form of iaceo, meaning “lie, lie down”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 306 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 2.2: … olumis civis, quod stantem urbem reliquit, quanto tandem illum maerore esse adflictum et profligatum putatis? iacet ille nunc prostratus, Quirites, et se perculsum atque abiectum esse sentit et retorquet oculos profecto saepe …

Vergil, Aeneid 2.557: regnatorem Asiae. Iacet ingens litore truncus,

Propertius, Elegiae 2.13b.19: et duo sint versus: QVI NVNC IACET HORRIDA PVLVIS,

All forms of iaceo (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.