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orantibus

orantibus is a Latin form of oro, meaning “beg, pray; plead”. It is the present active participle ablative plural masculine or present active participle ablative plural feminine or present active participle ablative plural neuter or present active participle dative plural masculine.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.22.1: Haec orantibus legatis commemorat Caesar: Eodem tempore superiore anno Bellovacos ceterasque Galliae civitates suscepisse bellum: pertinacissime hos ex omnibus in sententia permansisse neque ad sanitatem reliquorum deditione esse perductos.

All forms of oro (conjugation 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.