virgae

virgae is a Latin form of virga, meaning “twig, rod, switch; wand”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 2.358: tum levis calamos et rasae hastilia virgae

Plautus, Bacchides 1.0.2: víncla, virgaé, molae: saévitudo mala fit peior

Apuleius, Florida 9·3: … rramentis uti nosse, sed pro his praeoptare me fateor uno chartario calamo me reficere poemata omnigenus apta uirgae, lyrae, socco, coturno, item satiras ac griphos, item historias uarias rerum nec non orationes laudatas diser …

All forms of virga (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.