phoenices
Dictionary entries
- Entry →phoenix, phoenicis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
- Field:
- Agriculture
phoenix, a fabulous bird of Arabia;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl. - Entry →Phoenice, Phoenices:
Feminine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
- Geography:
- Near East
Phoenicia; (coast region of Syria); wild grass; rye grass/Lolium perenne?;
gen. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...flexo limite ponticertior haud ullis duxit Cynosura carinis.(Phoenices primi, famae si creditur, ausi 220mansuram rudibus uocem signare..."Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...pacto congruere tecum potest, quod scribit in Phoenice in hisce versibus: sed virum vera virtute vivere animatum addecet..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...Cycladibusque insulis, Corcyra, Athenis, Ponto, Bithynia, Syria, Cilicia, Phoenice, Aegypto classem coegerat, magnam omnibus locis aedificandam curaverat; magnam..."Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legatos miserunt. Antiochus rex, ea hieme Raphiae in Phoenice Ptolomaeo regi Aegypti filia in matrimonium data, cum Antiochiam..."Liber XXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quidem regis abhorrebat animus—ut in Epirum transiret. Phoenice urbs est Epiri; ibi prius conlocutus rex cum Aeropo..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...victi omnes in gentem nomenque imperantium concessere. Postea Phoenices, alii multitudinis domi minuendae gratia, pars imperi cupidine sollicitata..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Arabia terminantur, a meridie Aegyptus obiacet, ab occasu Phoenices et mare, septentrionem e latere Syriae longe prospectant. Corpora..."