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                    "description": "(adjective) : Tyrus or -ŏs, i, f., = Τύρος (Heb. ).\n* Lit., Tyre, a famous mariiime and commercial city of the Phoenicians, especially celebrated for its purple, now the ruins of Soor, Mel. 1, 12, 2; Plin. 5, 19, 17, § 76; Curt. 4, 2 sq.; Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 145; Tib. 1, 7, 20; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 7; Verg. A. 1, 346; Cv. M. 3, 539; 15, 288.—Hence, Tyrĭus, a, um\n* Of or belonging to Tyre, Tyrian: purpura,Cic. Fl. 29, 70: murex,Ov. A. A. 3, 170; id. M. 11, 166: fucus,id. ib. 6, 222: colores,id. ib. 9, 340; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 18: vestes,id. S. 2, 4, 84: chlamys,Ov. M. 5, 51: merces,Hor. C. 3, 29, 60: puella,i. e. Europa,Ov. F. 5, 605; also called Tyria paelex,id. M. 3, 258; cf. taurus (that carried her),Mart. 10, 51, 1: Tyria maria in proverbium deductum est, quod Tyro oriundi Poeni adeo potentes maris fuerunt, ut omnibus mortalibus navigatio esset periculosa. Afranius in Epistula: hunc in servum autem maria Tyria conciet,Fest. p. 355 Müll.\n* Transf., poet., purple, Mart. 2, 29, 3; 6, 11, 7.\n* Carthaginian: arces,Verg. A. 1, 20: virgines,id. ib. 1, 336: urbs,id. ib. 1, 388: doli,Sil. 7, 268: patres,id. 2, 24: ductor,i. e. Hannibal,id. 10, 171; cf. miles,the army of Hannibal,id. 8, 13.\n* Purple, of a purple color: torus,Tib. 1, 2, 75: sinus,id. 1, 9, 70: vestes,id. 1, 7, 47: palla,id. 4, 2, 11: subtemen,id. 4, 1, 121: amictus, Ov A. A. 2, 297: cocco tinctum Tyrio,Plin. 9, 41, 65, § 140.—Subst.: Ty-rĭum, i, n., a purple color: Tyria atque conchylia et omnis alios colores,Plin. 22, 2, 3, § 3; 35, 6, 26, § 45.—Plur subst.: Tyrĭi, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Tyre, the Tyrians, Mel. 3, 6, 1; Cic. Phil. 11, 13, 35; id. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 2; Luc. 5, 108 al.—Poet., transf. (cf. supra), for Thebans, Stat. Th. 1, 10; 2, 73; 9, 489.—For Carthaginians, Verg. A. 1, 574; 4, 111; Sil. 1, 82 al."
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