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nepotes

nepotes is a Latin form of nepos, meaning “grandson; descendant; spendthrift”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 125 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 2.3: … ratum a te puto ut te infimo ordini commendares, cum omnes te recordarentur libertini generum et liberos tuos nepotes Q. Fadi, libertini hominis, fuisse. at enim te in disciplinam meam tradideras—nam ita dixisti—domum meam vent …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 64.1: Nepotes ex Agrippa et Iulia tres habuit C. et L. et Agrippam, neptes duas Iuliam et Agrippinam. Iuliam L. Paulo censo …

All forms of nepos (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.