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scires

scires is a Latin form of scio, meaning “know”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.65: … ctatissimi atque honestissimi viri tenerentur. haec tu, omnium mortalium profligatissime ac perditissime, cum scires, cum audires cotidie, cum videres, si sine tuo quaestu maximo fierent, cum tanto periculo tuo fieri paterere …

Petronius, Satyricon 91: Video Gitona cum linteis et strigilibus parieti applicitum tristem confusumque. Scires, non libenter servire. Itaque ut experimentum oculorum caperem convertit ille solutum gaudio vultum et “Miser …

All forms of scio (conjugation 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.