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Furiarum

Furiarum is a Latin form of Furius, meaning “Furius, name of a Roman clan (e.g. M. Furius Camillus)”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective.

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

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 67: … ad modum in fabulis saepenumero videtis, eos qui aliquid impie scelerateque commiserint agitari et perterreri Furiarum taedis ardentibus. Sua quemque fraus et suus terror maxime vexat, suum quemque scelus agitat amentiaque adfic …

Petronius, Satyricon 1: “Num alio genere furiarum declamatores inquietantur, qui clamant: 'haec vulnera pro libertate publica excepi; hunc oculum pro vobis imp …

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.