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
- P
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..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...pacis quam adiutor belli fuisset, ne in libertatem Crotonis, sicut ante Locrorum, frustra pugnaretur. itaque optimum uisum..."