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scelera

scelera is a Latin form of scelus, meaning “crime, wickedness”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 173 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 25: … DECVRIONVM. legati in castra veniunt. intellegitur, iudices, id quod iam ante dixi, imprudente L. Lucio Sulla scelera haec et flagitia fieri. nam statim Chrysogonus et ipse ad eos accedit et homines nobilis adlegat qui peterent …

Terence, Andria 4.4.786: Scelera, hanc iam oportet in cruciatum hinc abripi.

All forms of scelus (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.