rex
noun
king.
reges
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pluralof rex.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the meantime the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroyed by a pestilence into the bargain:- "Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi."
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
Virgil had now found in his own age a motive for the composition of that epic poem which it had been his boyish ambition to attempt,— Cum canerem reges et proelia.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
Of Master Richard's speaking with the King's Grace: and how he was taken for it Et nunc reges intelligite: erudimini qui judicatis terram.
From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Robert Hugh Benson
Certainly German progress shows that the Germans can have no ground to quote: “Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi,” of their Emperor.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
"Et nunc, reges, intelligite; erudimini, qui judicatis terram:" Understand now, ye kings of the earth; learn, ye who judge the world.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
