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. —