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supplices

supplices is a Latin form of supplex, meaning “suppliant, begging; (noun) a suppliant”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or accusative plural feminine adjective or accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.28.3: Quos Caesar, ut in miseros ac supplices usus misericordia videretur, diligentissime conservavit suisque finibus atque oppidis uti iussit et finitimis imperavit ut ab iniuria et maleficio se suosque prohiberent.

Horace, Carmen Saeculare 1.34: Supplices audi pueros, Apollo;

Plautus, Cistellaria 1.1.32: út sibi simus súpplices.

All forms of supplex (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.