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saevitiam

saevitiam is a Latin form of saevitia, meaning “savagery, cruelty, fierceness”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 77 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.688: saevitiam et vires iramque animosque minaces,

Tacitus, Annales 1·91: … ebat; nam Agrippa discidio domum imminuerat. et Caesar quamvis posthabitam decies sestertii dote solatus est. Saevitiam annonae incusante plebe statuit frumento pretium quod emptor penderet, binosque nummos se additurum negotiato …

Suetonius, Tiberius 62.1: Auxit intenditque saeuitiam exacerbatus indicio de morte filii sui Drusi. quem cum morbo et intemperantia perisse existimaret, ut tandem …

All forms of saevitia (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.