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levia

levia is a Latin form of levis, meaning “light, slight; smooth”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 127 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 52: … edare in animo habebat. audio; nunc dicis aliquid quod ad rem pertineat; nam illa, opinor, tu quoque concedis levia esse atque inepta: convivia cum patre non inibat. quippe, qui ne in oppidum quidem nisi perraro veniret. domu …

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 87: … apta militibus donat; dein castella et oppida natura et viris parum munita aggreditur, proelia multa, ceterum leuia, alia aliis locis facere. Interim novi milites sine metu pugnae adesse, videre fugientis capi aut occidi, for …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 8.6.5: Levia haec et transeunda, illa memoranda quod nomine Pallantis senatus - nec expiata postea curia est -, Pallantis …

All forms of levis (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.