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pedites

pedites is a Latin form of pedes, meaning “foot soldier, infantryman; (pl.) infantry”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun.

Found 167 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.48.5: equitum milia erant VI, totidem numero pedites velocissimi ac fortissimi, quos ex omni copia singuli singulos suae salutis causa delegerant:

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.12.7: Massagetae duobus milibus agmen eius claudebant. Pedites his plurium gentium non inmixtos, sed suae cuiusque nationis iunxerat copias. Persas deinde cum Mardis Sogdianisque Ariobarzanes et Orontobates ducebant.

All forms of pedes (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.