optimates

optimates is a Latin form of optimas, meaning “aristocratic; (optimates) the aristocratic party”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 54 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.52: … tas populorum a multitudine ad paucos transtulit. Sic inter infirmitatem unius temeritatemque multorum medium optimates possederunt locum, quo nihil potest esse moderatius; quibus rem publicam tuentibus beatissimos esse populos n …

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 7.6.1: … ibi tam ignoscemus nos amici, quam ignoverunt Medeae, quaé Corinthum arcem áltam habebant mátronae opulentae, óptimates, quibus illa manibus gypsatissimis persuasit ne sibi vitio illae verterent, quod abesset a patria; nam Múlti …

All forms of optimas (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.