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hebenus

hebenus · f

the ebon-tree

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Naturalis Historia 13 · 0.33/10k
De Medicina 3 · 0.29/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

hĕbĕnus — Lewis & Short

hĕbĕnus (less correctly ĕbĕnus, Rf., Gr. e(/benos, e)/benos,

ib. Prol. Verg. p. 421), i.

I the ebon-tree, ebony: Diospyros ebenum, Linn.; Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 204; 6, 30, 35, § 197; Verg. G. 2, 117; Ov. M. 11, 610; Pers. 5, 135; cf. Isid. Orig. 17, 7, 36.

In the wild

hebeno Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.24.p53
Hebenus Lucan, Pharsalia 10.117
hebenus Celsus, De Medicina 3.21.p1
hebenus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.4.p1
hebenus Celsus, De Medicina 5.7
hebenus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.11.p3

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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