The corpus record — Latin

ultrix

ultrix · adj

avenging

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Octavia 3 · 5.73/10k
Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Thebais 10 · 1.6/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ultrix — Lewis & Short

ultrix, īcis, adj.ultor,

I 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).

In the wild

ultrix Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.194
ultricibus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.14.p1
ultrix Seneca, Octavia 1
ultrices Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 17_18.107.3
ultrices Vergil, Aeneid 6.274
ultrix Statius, Achilleis 1.397

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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