oves

oves is a Latin form of ovis, meaning “sheep”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 75 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.158: … ut haec bestiarum etiam causa parata sint, ut ipsas bestias hominum gratia generatas esse videamus. quid enim oves aliud adferunt nisi ut earum villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur; quae quidem neque ali neque …

Seneca the Younger, Naturales Quaestiones 3.25.4: In Macedonia quoque, ut ait Theophrastus, qui facere albas oues uolunt, <ad Haliacmonem> adducunt, quem ut diutius potauere, non aliter quam infectae mutantur; at si illis l …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 3.15.3: Ovesque segregatas ostendit procul.

All forms of ovis (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.