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spectaculis

spectaculis is a Latin form of spectaculum, meaning “sight, spectacle, show; (pl.) seats in a theater”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.48: … pulsi recurrant? ut aliquid scire se gaudeant? ut id aliis narrare gestiant? ut pompa, ludis atque eius modi spectaculis teneantur ob eamque rem vel famem et sitim perferant? quid vero? qui ingenuis studiis atque artibus delectant …

Suetonius, Divus Titus 10.1: inter haec morte praeuentus est maiore hominum damno quam suo. Spectaculis absolutis, in quorum fine populo coram ubertim fleuerat, Sabinos petit aliquanto tristior, quod sacrificanti …

All forms of spectaculum (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.