libya
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Libya, Libyae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Africa
Libya (general term for North Africa); peoples (pl.) of Libya;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...haut ultra Garamantidas attigit undas, sed duce Pompeio Libyae melioris in oris mansit. at inpatiens uirtus haerere Catonis..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...orbisHesperiam pensant superi: iacet hostis in undisobrutus Illyricis, Libyae squalentibus aruisCurio Caesarei cecidit pars magna senatus. 40tollite signa..."Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uiresque resumitin nuda tellure iacens. periere coloni 605aruorum Libyae, pereunt quos appulit aequor;auxilioque diu uirtus..."Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Scythiae populos, per inhospita Syrtislitora, per calidas Libyae sitientis harenas:haec manus, ut uictum post terga relinqueret orbem..."Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...despiciam, qui scit quanto sublimior Atlas omnibus in Libya sit montibus, hic tamen idem ignorat quantum ferrata distet..."Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...sacrum manu pestes uocat quascumque feruentis creat harena Libyae quasque perpetua niue Taurus coercet frigore Arctoo rigens..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Hiberae. Iam fragor armorum trepidantes personat aures, Et Libyae cerno tua, Nile, gementia claustra, Actiacosque sinus et Apollinis..."Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...fratresobscaena de matre dedit, partesque fugataspassus in extremis Libyae coalescere regnistempora Niliaco turpis dependit amori, 80dum donare Pharon..."