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plagis

plagis is a Latin form of plaga, meaning “(1) blow, stroke, wound; (2) region, tract; (3) hunting net”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 66 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.56: … o frumenti scitote sed etiam vitae et sanguinis tantum relictum esse quantum Aproni libido tulit; nam vi malo plagis adductus est ut frumenti daret, non quantum deberet, sed quantum cogeretur.

Seneca the Younger, Thyestes 491: Plagis tenetur clausa dispositis fera:

All forms of plaga (declension table)

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.