virgas

virgas is a Latin form of virga, meaning “twig, rod, switch; wand”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.55: … adducant; et illud simul ait, se non putare illum, si propter divitias poenam damnationis contemneret, etiam virgas contempturum. hac ille vi et hoc metu adductus tantum decumanis dedit quantum iste imperavit.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.55.5: cum auxilio nemo esset, consules spoliari hominem et uirgas expediri iubent. 'prouoco' inquit, 'ad populum' Uolero, 'quoniam tribuni ciuem Romanum in conspectu suo uirgi …

Cato the Elder, De agricultura 1·38: … bene conbibat. id si feceris, metreta oleum non bibet, et oleum melius faciet, et ipsa metreta firmior erit. Virgas murteas si voles cum bacis servare et item aliut genus quod vis, et si ramulos ficulneos voles cum foliis, in …

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.