The corpus record — Latin

haphe

haphe · f

the yellow sand

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

hăphē — Lewis & Short

hăphē (aphē), ēs, f., = a(fh/ (a touching, handling; hence),

I the yellow sand with which wrestlers, after being anointed, were sprinkled.

I Lit.: flavescit haphe, Mart. 7, 67, 5.—

II Transf., the dust of a road, Sen. Ep. 57, 1.

In the wild

haphe Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.57.1
haphe Martial, Epigrammata 7.67.5

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.