legatos

legatos is a Latin form of legatus, meaning “envoy, deputy, commander”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 659 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.7.3: Ubi de eius adventu Helvetii certiores facti sunt, legatos ad eum mittunt nobilissimos civitatis, cuius legationis Nammeius et Verucloetius principem locum obtinebant, …

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.32: … secum administrent. Sin timore defugiant, illis se oneri non futurum et per se rem publicam administraturum. Legatos ad Pompeium de compositione mitti oportere, neque se reformidare, quod in senatu Pompeius paulo ante dixisset …

All forms of legatus (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.