silicum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →silex, silicis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
pebble/stone, flint; boulder, stone;
gen. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...glarea uena.tunc exhausta super multo sudore iuuentusextrahitur duris silicum lassata metallis;quoque minus possent siccos tolerare uapores 305quaesitae..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...expediam. primum totius subcava montis est natura fere silicum suffulta cavernis. omnibus est porro in speluncis ventus..." - P
Amores I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...tabellas perfer et obstantes sedula pelle moras! nec silicum venae nec durum in pectore ferrum, nec tibi simplicitas..."