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sanguine

sanguine is a Latin form of sanguis, meaning “blood; bloodshed; descent, family, offspring”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 1,059 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.20.12: quem proditionis insimulatis; cuius opera sine vestro sanguine tantum exercitum victorem fame consumptum videtis; quem turpiter se ex fuga recipientem ne qua civitas suis finibus recipiat a me provisum est."

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.37: … Averni lacus, únde animae excitántur obscura úmbra opertae, imágines mórtuorum, alto óstio Acherúntis, salso sánguine. has tamen imagines loqui volunt, quod fieri nec sine lingua nec sine palato nec sine faucium laterum pulmonu …

Vergil, Aeneid 2.116: Sanguine placastis ventos et virgine caesa,

All forms of sanguis (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.