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petimus

petimus is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the 1st person plural present active indicative.

Found 76 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 12: … a vociferatione in ceteris iudiciis accusatores uti consuerunt, ea nos hoc tempore utimur qui causam dicimus. petimus abs te, M. Marce Fanni, a vobisque, iudices, ut quam acerrime maleficia vindicetis, ut quam fortissime homini …

Lucan, Civil War 7.803: Cives esse suos. Petimus non singula busta,

All forms of peto (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.