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legens

legens is a Latin form of lego, meaning “read; gather, choose”. It is the present active participle accusative singular neuter or present active participle nominative singular masculine or present active participle vocative singular masculine or present active participle nominative singular feminine.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.82: … ccepimus, Zenonem Eleatem in tormentis necatum; quid dicam de Socrate, cuius morti inlacrimare soleo Platonem legens? Videsne igitur deorum iudicio, si vident res humanas, discrimen esse sublatum?

All forms of lego (conjugation 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.