Socratos Sign in

manubiis

manubiis is a Latin form of manubiae, meaning “money obtained from the sale of booty”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.154: … efarius reperiatur? dubitamus quid iste in hostium praeda molitus sit, qui manubias sibi tantas ex L. Metelli manubiis fecerit, qui maiore pecunia quattuor columnas dealbandas quam ille omnis aedificandas locaverit? exspectemus …

Cicero, De Lege Agraria 2.59: … videtur locus esse qui tantos acervos pecuniae capiat; auget, addit, accumulat. Avrvm, argentvm ex praeda, ex manvbiis, ex coronario ad qvoscvmqve pervenit neqve relatvm est in pvblicvm neqve in monvmento consvmptvm, id profiter …

All forms of manubiae (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.