See amplexus on Wiktionary
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}
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"masculine",
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"word": "amplector"
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"plural"
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"genitive",
"singular"
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},
{
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"genitive",
"plural"
]
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{
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"dative",
"plural"
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{
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"form": "amplexibus",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"plural"
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{
"form": "amplexus",
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"singular",
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{
"glosses": [
"clasp, embrace"
],
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"english": "It had been the habit of one of your serving-women, [daughter] of Cadmus, often to go under the embraces of your husband.\n(The daughter of Cadmus is Ino (mythology).)",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.553–554",
"roman": "saepe sub amplexūs coniugis īre tuī.",
"text": "ūna ministrārum solita est, Cadmēī, tuārum",
"translation": "It had been the habit of one of your serving-women, [daughter] of Cadmus, often to go under the embraces of your husband.\n(The daughter of Cadmus is Ino (mythology).)",
"type": "quotation"
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{
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"declension-4",
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"circumference"
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}
],
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}
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