maurum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Maurus, Mauri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Africa
Moor; (inhabitant of North Africa); Mauretanian;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...frigido pontus Scythes, quae pigra Tethys genuit aut Maurum premens Hibera Calpe litus? o dirum malum! utrumne serpens..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...Sulla, quamquam eadem existimabat, tamen ab iniuria Maurum prohibet. Suos hortatur, uti fortem animum gererent: saepe antea..."
