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poenarum

poenarum is a Latin form of poena, meaning “penalty, punishment; (poenas dare) pay the penalty, be punished”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 2.1: … m tempore mihi quoque indixerit? nec vero necesse est quemquam a me nominari: vobiscum ipsi recordamini. mihi poenarum illi plus quam optarem dederunt: te miror, Antoni, quorum facta imitere, eorum exitus non perhorrescere. atqu …

Vergil, Aeneid 9.356: Poenarum exhaustum satis est, via facta per hostis.

All forms of poena (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.