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legationes

legationes is a Latin form of legatio, meaning “embassy, delegation; office of a legate”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 83 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.35.1: His rebus gestis omni Gallia pacata, tanta huius belli ad barbaros opinio perlata est uti ab iis nationibus quae trans Rhenum incolerent legationes ad Caesarem mitterentur, quae se obsides daturas, imperata facturas pollicerentur.

All forms of legatio (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.