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oculorum

oculorum is a Latin form of oculus, meaning “eye”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 190 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.39.1: … e exercitatione in armis esse praedicabant (saepe numero sese cum his congressos ne vultum quidem atque aciem oculorum dicebant ferre potuisse), tantus subito timor omnem exercitum occupavit ut non mediocriter omnium mentes anim …

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.52: Oculorum, inquit Plato, est in nobis sensus acerrimus, quibus sapientiam non cernimus. quam illa ardentis amores excit …

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.