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sceleste

sceleste is a Latin form of scelestus, meaning “wicked, villainous; accursed”. It is the adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 37: … vehementem atque durum: nunc enim demum mi animus ardet, nunc meum cor cumulatur ira aut illum: O infelix, o sceleste! ferrei sunt isti patres: egone quid dicam, quid velim? quae tu omnia tuis foedis factis facis ut nequiquam v …

Terence, Andria 4.4.790: Sceleste. Si pol Glycerio non omnia haec—

Plautus, Rudens 1.3.197a: sceléste, minus me míserer;

All forms of scelestus (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.