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vexillis

vexillis is a Latin form of vexillum, meaning “flag, banner; a detachment”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Tacitus, Agricola 18.3: … turo, et plerisque custodiri suspecta potius videbatur, ire obviam discrimini statuit; contractisque legionum vexillis et modica auxiliorum manu, quia in aequum degredi Ordovices non audebant, ipse ante agmen, quo ceteris par an …

Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 6.3: … tu Neronis translata ex Syria in Moesiam fuerat, Vespasianum laudibus ferrent, assensere cuncti nomenque eius uexillis omnibus sine mora inscripserunt. et tunc quidem compressa res est reuocatis ad officium numeris parumper. cet …

All forms of vexillum (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.