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inanibus

inanibus is a Latin form of inanis, meaning “empty, vain”. It is the ablative plural masculine adjective or ablative plural feminine adjective or ablative plural neuter adjective or dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.8: … s enim Corcyrae certior factus de adventu Caesaris, sperans alicui se parti onustarum navium occurrere posse, inanibus occurrit et nactus circiter XXX in eas indiligentiae suae ac doloris iracundiam erupit omnesque incendit eode …

All forms of inanis (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.