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placeat

placeat is a Latin form of placeo, meaning “please, be agreeable (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 149 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.37.7: Placuit ut Litaviccus decem illis milibus, quae Caesari ad bellum mitterentur, praeficeretur atque ea ducenda curaret, fratresque eius ad Caesarem praecurrerent. Reliqua qua ratione agi placeat constituunt.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.58: nescius adfectas. Placeat sibi quisque licebit,

All forms of placeo (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.