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viribus

viribus is a Latin form of vis, meaning “force, power, violence; (pl.) strength”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 732 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.53.2: Ibi perpauci aut viribus confisi tranare contenderunt aut lintribus inventis sibi salutem reppererunt.

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.699: Viribus illa quidem victa est, ita credere oportet:

Suetonius, Divus Julius 30.5: quidam putant captum imperii consuetudine pensitatisque suis et inimicorum uiribus usum occasione rapiendae dominationis, quam aetate prima concupisset. quod existimasse uidebatur et Cicero sc …

All forms of vis (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.