samie
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Samius, Samia, Samium:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
of/belonging to Samos; (cheap/brittle pottery); [testa ~ => shard for cutting];
voc. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...relinquenset placidi Colophona maris, spumantia paruae 245radit saxa Sami; spirat de litore Cooaura fluens; Cnidon inde fugit claramque..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...conlapsa vetustate moenia deorumque aedes refectae. Destinaverat et Sami Polycratis regiam restituere, Mileti Didymeum peragere, in iugo Alpium..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...fidem praetoris populique Romani implorantes, miserunt. Aemilium et Sami segnis diu mora offendebat, nihil minus opinantem quam Polyxenidam..."