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saepta

saepta is a Latin form of saepio, meaning “fence in, enclose; protect; (saepta) enclosure”.

It can also be a form of saeptum, “fold, paddock; enclosure; voting enclosure in the Campus Martius”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter.

Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.39: … ue perfringeres, ut omnium bona praedam tuam duceres, ut nullius res tuta, nullius domus clausa, nullius vita saepta, nullius pudicitia munita contra tuam cupiditatem et audaciam posset esse; in qua tu te ita gessisti ut, omni …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 43.4: … inuisitatum dignumque cognitu aduectum esset, id extra ordinem quolibet loco publicare, ut rhinocerotem apud Saepta, tigrim in scaena, anguem quinquaginta cubitorum pro comitio.

All forms of saepio (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.