The corpus record — Latin

Barce

Barce · f

A town in the Libyan province Pentapolis

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Where it lives

Hamilcar 1 · 19.34/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Barcē — Lewis & Short

Barcē, ēs, f., = *ba/rkh.

I A town in the Libyan province Pentapolis, afterwards called Ptolemais, now Tolometa or Dolmeita (acc. to others, the ruins of Merdsjeh), Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 32.—Hence, Barcaei, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Barce, enemies of Dido (poet. prolepsis), Verg. A. 4, 43.—

II The nurse of Sichœus, Verg. A. 4, 632.

In the wild

Barce Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.5
Barcae Silius Italicus, Punica 17.460
Barce Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.449
Barce Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.159
Barcen Vergil, Aeneid 4.632
Barce Silius Italicus, Punica 2.62

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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