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legere

legere is a Latin form of lego, meaning “read; gather, choose”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 160 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 21: … bonis. ex quibus ille cum optimos viros legeret idque maxime ad fidem suam pertinere arbitraretur, non potuit legere non studiosos mei.

Cicero, De Republica 1fr.1: nec doctíssimis. †Manium Persium haec légere nolo, Iúnium Congúm volo.

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.