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legi

legi is a Latin form of lego, meaning “read; gather, choose”. It is the 1st person singular perfect active indicative or present passive infinitive or dative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of lex, “law”.

Found 271 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.60: … signorum tabularumque pictarum missus est. et istius et patris eius accepi tabulas omnis, quas diligentissime legi atque digessi, patris, quoad vixit, tuas, quoad ais te confecisse. nam in isto, iudices, hoc novum reperietis …

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.124: … m aquam quasi naturalem domum videre potuerunt: tantam ingenuit animantibus conservandi sui natura custodiam. Legi etiam scriptum, esse avem quandam quae platalea nominaretur; eam sibi cibum quaerere advolantem ad eas avis q …

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.