The corpus record — Latin

tureus

tureus · adj

of frankincense

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Where it lives

Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

tūrĕus — Lewis & Short

tūrĕus (thūrĕus), a, um, adj.tus,

I of frankincense: solis est turea virga Sabaeis, the frankincense-shrub, Verg. G. 2, 117; so, virga, Ov. M. 4, 255: planta, Col. 3, 8, 4: grana, Ov. F. 4, 410: dona, Verg. A. 6, 225: altaria, on which incense is burned, Stat. Th. 4, 412.

In the wild

turea Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.255
turea Statius, Thebais 4.412
turea Vergil, Georgicon 2.117
turea Statius, Thebais 12.487
turea Vergil, Aeneid 6.225
tuream Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.8.4

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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