The corpus record — Latin

blattarius

blattarius · adj

pertaining to the moth

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Where it lives

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

blattārĭus — Lewis & Short

blattārĭus, a, um, adj.1. blatta,

I pertaining to the moth: balnea, for moths, i. e. dark bathing-rooms (so called from the dislike of the moth to the light), Sen. Ep. 86, 7; cf. Plin. 11, 28, 34, § 99.—

II Subst.: blattārĭa, ae, f. (sc. herba), moth-mullein: Verbascum blattaria, Linn.; Plin. 25, 9, 60, § 108.

In the wild

blattaria Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.25.p64
blattaria Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.9.p5
blattaria Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.86.8

Where it came from

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