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pectori

pectori is a Latin form of pectus, meaning “chest, heart, mind”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Tacitus, Annales 1·13: … lumis fidem legionum retinebo aut iugulatus paenitentiam adcelerabo.' Aggerabatur nihilo minus caespes iamque pectori usque adcreverat, cum tandem pervicacia victi inceptum omisere. Blaesus multa dicendi arte non per seditionem …

All forms of pectus (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.