caricas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →carica, caricae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
- Geography:
- Near East
kind of fig; (Caria a country in south-west Asia Minor);
acc. pl.
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...belle deverbia, adicere melicam. Heu, heu, abistis dulces caricae. — Iam, inquit ille, quadrigae meae decucurrerunt, ex quo podagricus..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...seducta secundis: hic nux, hic mixta est rugosis carica palmis prunaque et in patulis redolentia mala canistris..."