crotoni
Dictionary entries
- Entry →croto, crotonis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Pliny
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
castor-oil tree (Ricinus communis);
dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...herbas ipse domum magni nec inhospita tecta Crotonis intrasse et requie longum relevasse laborem atque ita discedens, "aevo..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...pacis quam adiutor belli fuisset, ne in libertatem Crotonis, sicut ante Locrorum, frustra pugnaretur. itaque optimum uisum..."