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puerilibus

puerilibus is a Latin form of puerilis, meaning “boyish, childish”. It is the ablative plural masculine adjective or ablative plural feminine adjective or ablative plural neuter adjective or dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.34: … ue lunam; qui quo sensu beati esse possint intellegi non potest. Ex eadem Platonis schola Ponticus Heraclides puerilibus fabulis refersit libros, et tamen modo mundum tum mentem divinam esse putat, errantibus etiam stellis divinit …

All forms of puerilis (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.