tyros
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Tyrus, Tyri:
Feminine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Near East
Tyre; (city on the Phoenician coast); (famous for crimson dye Tyrian purple);
acc. pl.nom. sg. - Entry →Tyros, Tyri:
Feminine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Near East
Tyre; (city on the Phoenician coast); (famous for crimson dye Tyrian purple);
acc. pl.nom. sg.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uentosa Damascos 215Gazaque et arbusto palmarum diues Idumeet Tyros in stabilis pretiosaque murice Sidon.has ad bella rates..."Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...nidis unica servat avis, Quidquid Agenoreo Tyros inproba cogit aheno: Quidquid habent omnes, accipe, quomodo das. XVIII Saturnalicio..."Liber VI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ingenua est et mihi, Marce, gula. Te Cadmea Tyros, me pinguis Gallia uestit: uis te purpureum, Marce, sagatus..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...haec pars facit uitium nunc illa. [1,13] Tyros aliquando infamis ruinis fuit, Asia duodecim urbes simul perdidit..."
Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Pangaea super rursus iuga meque paterna stare Tyro dulcesque iterum mihi surgere soles nunc reor. exactae (verumne?) abiere..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...iter, qua dulce nemus florentis Idymes, qua pretiosa Tyros rubeat, qua purpura suco Sidoniis iterata cadis, ubi germine..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...nulli quondam flexere mariti, non Libyae, non ante Tyro; despectus Iarbas ductoresque alii, quos Africa terra triumphis dives..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...amaris? 'Fluctibus ambitae fuerant Antissa Pharosque et Phoenissa Tyros: quarum nunc insula nulla est. Leucada continuam veteres habuere..."