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versibus

versibus is a Latin form of versus, meaning “line, verse; row; (prep. and adv.) toward”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 209 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta 20: neque enim quisquam est tam aversus a Musis qui non mandari versibus aeternum suorum laborum praeconium facile patiatur. Themistoclem illum, summum Athenis virum, dixisse aiunt, …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 85.2: poetica summatim attigit. unus liber extat scriptus ab eo hexametris uersibus, cuius et argumentum et titulus est 'Sicilia'; extat alter aeque modicus 'epigrammatum,' quae fere tempore ba …

Martial, Epigrammata 14.2.2: Versibus explicitumst omne duobus opus.

All forms of versus (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.