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parcere

parcere is a Latin form of parco, meaning “spare, refrain from (+dat.)”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 84 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.40.7: Ipse Cicero, cum tenuissima valetudine esset, ne nocturnum quidem sibi tempus ad quietem relinquebat, ut ultro militum concursu ac vocibus sibi parcere cogeretur.

Ovid, Heroides 13.70: 'Parcere me iussit Laodamia sibi.'

Plautus, Trinummus 4.1.829: paupéribus te parcére solitum, dités damnare atqué domare.

All forms of parco (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.