croceo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →croceus, crocea, croceum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
yellow, golden; saffron-colored; of saffron/its oil, saffron-; scarlet (Ecc);
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tenera dulcis ab harundine sucos,et qui tinguentes croceo medicamine crinemfluxa coloratis astringunt carbasa gemmis,quique suas struxere..."Liber XIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tener ille deo. XL. Ova. Candida si croceos circumfluit unda vitellos, Hesperius scombri temperet ova liquor. XLI. Porcellus..."Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...fetus alibi atque iniussa virescunt gramina. Nonne vides, croceos ut Tmolus odores, India mittit ebur, molles sua tura..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...suscitat adfixam maestis Aeetida curis, ipsa suas illi croceo subtegmine vestes induit, ipsa suam duplicem Cytherea coronam donat..."Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Aeetes atque hunc quoque nomine reddit: 'dives Aron. croceos sic illius omnis odores iactat eques, cunctis..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...virere nova, quod non sua seminat arbos, et croceo fetu teretis circumdare truncos, talis erat species auri frondentis..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ferre iubet, pallam signis auroque rigentem, et circumtextum croceo velamen acantho, ornatus Argivae Helenae, quos illa Mycenis, Pergama..."Ecloga IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...pratis aries iam suave rubenti murice, iam croceo mutabit vellera luto, sponte sua sandyx pascentis vestiet agnos. 'Talia..."