The corpus record — Latin

Sarra

Sarra · f

The city of Tyre

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 2 · 1.58/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

Sarra — Lewis & Short

Sarra (Sara, ae, f., Heb. Zor.

Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 58),

I The city of Tyre, in Phœnicia, celebrated for its purple dye: Poenos Sarrā oriundos, Enn. ap. Prob. Verg. G. 2, 506; cf. Serv. ad loc., and Gell. 14, 6, 4: purpuram ex Sarā tibi Attuli, Plaut. l. l.— Hence,

II Sarrānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sarra, i. e.,

A Tyrian: gens, Sil. 1, 72: Leptis, built by the Tyrians, id. 3, 256: ostrum, Verg. G. 2, 506; Col. poët. 10, 287; cf. murex, Sil. 15, 205: aulaea, Juv. 10, 38: violae, purple-red, Col. 9, 4, 4. —

B Transf., Carthaginian: Juno (especially honored in Carthage), Sil. 6, 468: manus, id. 9, 319: navita, id. 7, 432: numina, id. 8, 46.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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