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lege

lege is a Latin form of lex, meaning “law”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 1,080 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.3.2: Ad eas res conficiendas biennium sibi satis esse duxerunt; in tertium annum profectionem lege confirmant.

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.116: Lege laudationes, Torquate, non eorum, qui sunt ab Homero laudati, non Cyri, non Agesilai, non Aristidi aut Themis …

All forms of lex (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.