virgis

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

Found 98 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.122: … dubio crudelitas gravior est atque atrocior. oblitosne igitur hos putatis esse quem ad modum sit iste solitus virgis plebem Romanam concidere? quam rem etiam tribunus plebis in contione egit, cum eum quem iste virgis ceciderat …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 45.4: … phanionem togatarium, cui in puerilem habitum circumtonsam matronam ministrasse compererat, per trina theatra uirgis caesum relegauerit, Hylan pantomimum querente praetore in atrio domus suae nemine excluso flagellis uerberari …

Plautus, Pseudolus 1.5.513c: Virgis caedito.

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.