ultrix

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ultrix, īcis, adj. [ultor], avenging, vengeful.

I Adj. (poet.): ultricesque sedent in limine Dirae, the avenging goddesses , i. e. the Furies , Verg. A. 4, 473; cf. Furiae, Claud. Ep. 1, 14; and, deae, Sen. Med. 967: Curae, Verg. A. 6, 274: dextra, Sen. Herc. Fur. 895: irae, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 104: rotae, id. Laud. Stil. 1, 98.—In neutr. plur. : ultricia bella, Sil. 2, 423: tela ultricia, Stat. Th. 10, 911.—*

II Subst., she that avenges , an avenger : ultrix afflictae civitatis, Cic. Dom. 43, 112 (dub.; B. and K. victrix).

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