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furiis

furiis is a Latin form of Furius, meaning “Furius, name of a Roman clan (e.g. M. Furius Camillus)”. It is the ablative plural neuter adjective or ablative plural feminine adjective or ablative plural masculine adjective or dative plural neuter adjective.

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

Found 69 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 14.15: … ristis a Mutina fama manaret, inflati laetitia atque insolentia impii cives unum se in locum, ad illam curiam furiis potius suis quam rei publicae infelicem congregabant. ibi cum consilia inirent de caede nostra partirenturque …

Vergil, Aeneid 3.331: coniugis et scelerum Furiis agitatus, Orestes

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.