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pios

pios is a Latin form of pius, meaning “dutiful, devoted (to gods, country, family); good, holy”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.48: … se constaret. Tum autem ex omnibus montibus nives proluit ac summas ripas fluminis superavit pontesque ambo, (pios C. Fabius fecerat, uno die interrupit. Quae res magnas difficultates exercitui Caesaris attulit. Castra I eni …

All forms of pius (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.