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Seplasia

Seplasia · f

a street in Capua

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 2 · 1.84/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

Sēplā^sĭa — Lewis & Short

Sēplā^sĭa (ă, ae, f. (Sēplā^sĭa, ōrum, n., Varr. ap.

Aus. Epigr 123; ā, Marcell. Medic. 66), Non. 226, 16),

I a street in Capua, where unguents were sold: Seplasia platea Capuae, in quā unguentarii negotiari sunt soliti, Ascon. Cic. Pis. 11, 24, p. 10 Orell.; so Varr. ap. Non. 226, 18; Cic. Pis. 11, 24; id. Agr. 2, 34, 94; id. Sest. 8, 19; Plin. 16, 10, 18, § 40; 33, 13, 57, § 164: fraus Seplasiae, i. e. ointments adulterated in the Seplasia, id. 34, 11, 25, § 108; Val. Max. 9, 1, 1 ext.—In plur., Pompon. ap. Non. 226, 20.—Hence, *

A Sēplasĭum, ii, n. (sc. unguentum), Seplasian unguent, Petr. 76, 6.—

B sēplasĭārĭus, ii, m., a dealer in unguents, Lampr. Heliog. 30; Inscr. Orell. 4202; 4417.—

C sēplasĭārĭum, muropw/lion, Gloss. Lat. Gr.

In the wild

Seplasiae Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 82.4
Seplasiae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.11.p2
Seplasia Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 24
Seplasiae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.11.p2
Seplasia Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1e.1
Seplasia Cicero, In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 24

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Where it came from

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