ultrix

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).