The corpus record — Latin

biblus

biblus · f

the papyrus

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Where it lives

Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

biblus — Lewis & Short

biblus, i, f., = bi/blos (bu/blos),

I the papyrus, a sort of rush that grew largely in Egypt, from the inner bark of which paper was made (poet. for the more usual papyrus): flumineae, Luc. 3, 222; cf. Plin. 13, 11, 22, § 71 sq.—Meton., paper, Sedul. 1, 6.

In the wild

biblos Lucan, Pharsalia 3.222

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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