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quaerentibus

quaerentibus is a Latin form of quaero, meaning “seek, ask; inquire”. It is the present active participle ablative plural masculine or present active participle ablative plural feminine or present active participle ablative plural neuter or present active participle dative plural masculine.

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.47.2: Nam cum Antonius in hiberna venisset, civitasque Atrebatum in officio esset, Commius, qui post illam vulnerationem, quam supra commemoravi, semper ad omnes motus paratus suis civibus esse consuesset, ne consilia belli quaerentibus auctor armorum duxque deesset,

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 10.5.5: Quaerentibusque his, cui relinqueret regnum, respondit, ei, qui esset optimus: ceterum providere iam se, ob id certamen magnos funebres ludos parari sibi.

All forms of quaero (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.