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Samaria

Samaria · f

the middle district of Palestine

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Where it lives

Adversus Judaeos Liber 10 · 8.91/10k
Adversus Marcionem 14 · 1.69/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

Sămărīa — Lewis & Short

Sămărīa, ae, f., = *sama/reia (orig. Heb. ),

I the middle district of Palestine, Plin. 5, 13, 14, § 68.—Hence,

A Să-mărītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Samaria, the Samaritans, Tac. A. 12, 54; Vulg. 4 Reg. 17, 29.—In sing.: Sămărī-tes, ae, m., a Samaritan, Hadr. ap. Vop. Sat. 8.—

B Sămărītis, ĭdis, f., a Samaritan woman, Juvenc. 2, 246; 252; Alcim. 3, 405.—

C Sămărītānus, a, um, adj., Samaritan: via, Sedul. 4, 222.—In plur., the Samaritans, Vulg. 2 Esd. 4, 2.—

D Sămărītĭcus, a, um, adj., Samaritan: mulier, Juvenc. 2, 256.—

E Sămă-rēus, a, um, adj., Samaritan: superstitio, Cassiod. Var. 3, 45.

In the wild

Samariam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.14
Samariae Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 9
Samariam Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.9
Samariae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.14
Samariae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.13
Samariae Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.13

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Where it came from

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