Socratos Sign in

oculis

oculis is a Latin form of oculus, meaning “eye”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 1,039 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.12.1: Flumen est Arar, quod per fines Haeduorum et Sequanorum in Rhodanum influit, incredibili lenitate, ita ut oculis in utram partem fluat iudicari non possit. Id Helvetii ratibus ac lintribus iunctis transibant.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 19.115.9: Miramur parietes tenui marmore inductos, cum sciamus, quale sit quod absconditur. Oculis nostris inponimus, et cum auro tecta perfudimus, quid aliud quam mendacio gaudemus? Scimus enim sub illo auro …

Plautus, Cistellaria 4.2.694: oculís investíges, astúte augura.

All forms of oculus (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.