vatibus

vatibus is a Latin form of vates, meaning “prophet, seer; poet, bard”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural masculine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 4.2: … riperem, quaecumque mihi uni proponetur fortuna subeatur. etenim si P. Publius Lentulus suum nomen inductus a vatibus fatale ad perniciem rei publicae fore putavit, cur ego non laeter meum consulatum ad salutem populi Romani pr …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.408: Vatibus, et largae saepe dabantur opes.

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.1.1: … are, uix tamen ibi talem statum reperies, quoniam quidem luctus et dolores deorum quoque pectoribus a maximis uatibus adsignari uidemus. hunc uitae actum eius consentaneus finis excepit: namque Metellum ultimae senectutis spati …

All forms of vates (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.