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supplicibus

supplicibus is a Latin form of supplex, meaning “suppliant, begging; (noun) a suppliant”. It is the ablative plural feminine adjective.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.81: … consuetudine et disciplina lenissimis, porro autem populi Romani condicione sociis, fortuna servis, voluntate supplicibus: ut perspicuum sit omnibus, nisi tanta acerbitas iniuriae, tanta vis sceleris fuisset ut Lampsaceni moriendum …

Tibullus, Elegiae 1.4.72: Supplicibus, miseris fletibus illa favet.’

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.