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Furiae

Furiae is a Latin form of Furius, meaning “Furius, name of a Roman clan (e.g. M. Furius Camillus)”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective or vocative plural feminine adjective or dative singular feminine adjective or genitive singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of furia, “frenzy, fury; rage (pl.); mad craving”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 66: … sumpsisse, cum praesertim deorum immortalium iussis atque oraculis id fecisse dicantur, tamen ut eos agitent Furiae neque consistere umquam patiantur, quod ne pii quidem sine scelere esse potuerunt? sic se res habet, iudices: …

Ovid, Tristia 1.5.22: fecerunt furiae, tristis Oresta, tuae.

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.