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quietem

quietem is a Latin form of quies, meaning “rest, repose; quiet, peace; sleep”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 190 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.40.7: Ipse Cicero, cum tenuissima valetudine esset, ne nocturnum quidem sibi tempus ad quietem relinquebat, ut ultro militum concursu ac vocibus sibi parcere cogeretur.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 2.19.4: Tenebras habere non potes; sequetur, quocumque fugeris, multum pristinae lucis. Quietem potes vindicare sine ullius odio, sine desiderio aut morsu animi tui. Quid enim relinques, quod invitus relic …

All forms of quies (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.