sulpura
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sulpur, sulpuris:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
brimstone, sulfur; lightning/thunder (associated with brimstone);
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- D
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...nasorum quattuor ac iam quassatum et rupto poscentem sulpura uitro. si stomachus domini feruet uinoque ciboque, frigidior Geticis..." - D
Satura II
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...illos umbra uenit? cuperent lustrari, si qua darentur sulpura cum taedis et si foret umida laurus. illic..." - P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...contingunt corpus amurca et spumas miscent argenti uiuaque sulpura Idaeasque pices et pinguis unguine ceras scillamque elleborosque grauis..."