The corpus record — Latin

sepia

sepia · f

the cuttle-fish

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 8 · 5.1/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

sēpĭa — Lewis & Short

sēpĭa, ae, f., = shpi/a,

I the cuttle-fish, having a black, inky liquid, Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127; Plin. 9, 29, 45, § 84; Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 45; Col. 6, 17, 7.—This liquid was used for ink, Pers. 3, 13; hence, transf., ink: furva, Aus. Ep. 4, 76.

Where it came from

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