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ignoscere

ignoscere is a Latin form of ignosco, meaning “forgive, pardon (+dat.)”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 69 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.27.5: Caesar questus quod, cum ultro in continentem legatis missis pacem ab se petissent, bellum sine causa intulissent, ignoscere se imprudentiae dixit obsidesque imperavit;

Seneca the Younger, De Clementia 2.7.3: … are litem. Nihil ex his facit, tamquam iusto minus fecerit, sed tamquam id, quod constituit, iustissimum sit. Ignoscere autem est, quem iudices puniendum, non punire ; venia debitae poenae remissio est. Clementia hoc primum praes …

All forms of ignosco (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.