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luctibus

luctibus is a Latin form of luctus, meaning “grief, mourning, sorrow”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 3.94: … eritum Hippolyti filii, cum is patri suspectus esset de noverca; quo optato impetrato Theseus in maximis fuit luctibus.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.431: Luctibus extremis teneras liquefacta medullas

All forms of luctus (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.