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manibus

manibus is a Latin form of manus, meaning “hand; band of men”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 946 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.51.3: Eo mulieres imposuerunt, quae ad proelium proficiscentes milites passis manibus flentes implorabant ne se in servitutem Romanis traderent.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.20: … nterimór manu. O náte, vere hoc nómen usurpá patri, Ne me óccidentem mátris superet cáritas. Huc árripe ad me mánibus abstractám piis; Iam cérnam, mene an íllam potiorém putes.

Vergil, Aeneid 3.63: aggeritur tumulo tellus; stant Manibus arae,

All forms of manus (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.