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placent

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

Found 130 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.208: placent vobis hominum mores? placet ita geri magistratus ut geruntur? placet socios sic tractari, quod restat, ut per …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 2.15.1: Quo modo te veteres Marsi tui? quo modo emptio nova Placent agri, postquam tui facti sunt? Rarum id quidem nihil enim aeque gratum est adeptis quam concupiscentibus.

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.