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maesti

maesti is a Latin form of maestus, meaning “sad, mournful, gloomy”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.80.9: At ei qui ab Alesia processerant maesti prope victoria desperata se in oppidum receperunt.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.24: … m. Cum véro adesum inflátu renovatúmst iecur, Tum rúrsum taetros ávida se ad pastús refert. Sic hánc custodem maésti cruciatús alo, Quae mé perenni vívum foedat míseria. Namque, út videtis, vínclis constrictús Iovis Arcére neq …

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.63: Maesti omnes dubiique, ratem fidissima cuius

All forms of maestus (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.