The corpus record — Latin

ostrum

ostrum · n

the blood of the sea-snail

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 2 · 11.75/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 5.77/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ostrum — Lewis & Short

ostrum, i, n., = o)/streon.

I Lit., the blood of the sea-snail, purple (cf.: murex, purpura): ostro Perfusae vestes, Verg. A. 5, 111; Vitr. 7, 13.—

II Transf.

A Stuff dyed with purple, a purple dress, purple covering, purple: textilibus si in picturis ostroque rubenti Jacteris, Lucr. 2, 35: stratoque super discumbitur ostro, on purple-covered couches, Verg. A. 1, 700: Sarrano dormire ostro, id. G. 2, 506: velare umeros ostro, id. A. 7, 814; 4, 134; Prop. 4 (5), 3, 51. cenae sine aulaeis et ostro, Hor. C. 3, 29, 15; id. Ep. 1, 10, 26.—

B The brilliancy of purple, purple, Auct. Aetnae, 332.

In the wild

ostroque Tacitus, Historiae 2.21
ostrum Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.5.8.p1
ostro Horace, Epistulae 1.10.26
ostro Vergil, Aeneid 5.111
ostro Silius Italicus, Punica 11.154
ostro Statius, Silvae 4.1.21

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