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viros

viros is a Latin form of vir, meaning “man; husband; hero”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 723 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.57: Erat multo inferior numero navium Brutus; sed electos ex omnibus legionibus fortissimos viros, antesignanos, centuriones, Caesar ei classi attribuerat, qui sibi id muneris depoposcerant. Hi manus ferreas …

Suetonius, Divus Julius 16.2: … uit. quod cum praeter opinionem euenisset, senatus ob eundem coetum festinato coactus gratias ei per primores uiros egit accitumque in curiam et amplissimis uerbis conlaudatum in integrum restituit inducto priore decreto.

Plautus, Pseudolus 1.2.167: magnífice volo me víros summos accípere, ut mihi rem essé reantur.

All forms of vir (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.