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placet

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

Found 713 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 102: … maleficium pertineret, tamen ipse apertum suum scelus ante omnium oculos poneret. alter, si dis immortalibus placet, testimonium etiam in Sex. Roscium dicturus est; quasi vero id nunc agatur, utrum is quod dixerit credendum, …

Cicero, De Republica 1.69: … m, regio autem ipsi praestabit id, quod erit aequatum et temperatum ex tribus optimis rerum publicarum modis. Placet enim esse quiddam in re publica praestans et regale, esse aliud auctoritati principum inpartitum ac tributum, …

Plautus, Bacchides 4.4.670: non plácet nec temere est étiam. quin mihi réspondetis?

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.