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latrones

latrones is a Latin form of latro, meaning “robber, bandit; (verb latrare) bark”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 80 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.38.8: persequamur eorum mortem qui indignissime interierunt, atque hos latrones interficiamus." Ostendit cives Romanos, qui eius praesidi fiducia una erant:

Petronius, Satyricon 14: … ae cum rustico steterat, inspectis diligentius signis iniecit utramque laciniae manum magnaque vociferatione “Latrones” tenere clamavit. Contra nos perturbati, ne videremur nihil agere, et ipsi scissam et sordidam tenere coepimu …

All forms of latro (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.