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scelere

scelere is a Latin form of scelus, meaning “crime, wickedness”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 375 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.14.5: Consuesse enim deos immortales, quo gravius homines ex commutatione rerum doleant, quos pro scelere eorum ulcisci velint, his secundiores interdum res et diuturniorem impunitatem concedere.

Seneca the Younger, Troades 339b: Scelere quae fratrum

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.