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venenis

venenis is a Latin form of venenum, meaning “poison; drug, potion; charm”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

Found 70 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 3.87: … es Athenis, fuit, vel senatui nostro, qui numquam utilitatem a dignitate seiunxit, armis cum hoste certare an venenis? Si gloriae causa imperium expetendum est, scelus absit, in quo non potest esse gloria; sin ipsae opes expetu …

Apuleius, Apologia 69: … gicis maleficiis a me coacta, me solum repertum, qui uiduitatis eius uelut quandam uirginitatem carminibus et uenenis uiolarem. saepe audiui non de nihilo dici mendacem memorem esse oportere; at tibi, Aemiliane, non uenit in me …

All forms of venenum (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.