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castoreum

castoreum · n

castor

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
De Medicina 12 · 1.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

castŏrĕum — Lewis & Short

castŏrĕum, ei, n.1. castor,

I castor or castoreum, a secretion of the beaver having a strong odor, Plin. 8, 30, 47, § 109; Lucr. 6, 794; Cels. 6, 7, 8; Scrib. 3.—In plur., Verg. G. 1, 59; Plin. 32, 9, 31, § 101; Nemes. C. 224.

In the wild

castoreum Celsus, De Medicina 6.7.p7
castoreum Celsus, De Medicina 3.23.p2
castoreum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.30.p4
castoreum Persius, Saturae 5.135
castoreum Celsus, De Medicina 4.6
castoreum Celsus, De Medicina 6.7.p10

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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