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virgines

virgines is a Latin form of virgo, meaning “maiden, girl”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 145 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.77: … sdem illos deos nefario scelere auferebat. quid hoc tota Sicilia est clarius, quam omnis Segestae matronas et virgines convenisse cum Diana exportaretur ex oppido, unxisse unguentis, complesse coronis et floribus, ture, odoribus …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.36: … bibus mollissimo cultu parietum umbris occuluntur. illi autem voluerunt nihil horum simile esse ápud Lacaenas vírgines, Quibus mágis palaestra Euróta sol pulvís labor Milítia in studio est quám fertilitas bárbara. ergo his labor …

Horace, Carmen Saeculare 1.6: Virgines lectas puerosque castos

All forms of virgo (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.