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Palmyra

Palmyra · f

a city of Syria

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Where it lives

What it meant

Palmȳra — Lewis & Short

Palmȳra (Palmīra), ae, f., = *palmu/ra, *palmira,

I a city of Syria, whose ruins still remain, the seat of the empire of Odenathus and Zenobia, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 86; 6, 28, 32, § 144.—Hence, Palmȳrēnus (Palmīr-), a, um, adj., of Palmyra: solitudines, Plin. 5, 24, 21, § 87.—Subst.: Palmȳ-rēna, ae, f., the country around Palmyra, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 143; and Palmȳrēnus, i, m., an epithet of the emperor L. Domitius Aurelius, on account of his victory over Palmyra, Inscr. Grut. 276, 5.

In the wild

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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